Word: logical
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Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet...
...zombies, and nearly makes it work. What drives Dolores Claiborne is a powerful characterization of the title figure, a cranky old Maine islander who takes no guff from life or death. In a rasping, unrepentant tale to police, she admits to murdering her rotten husband 30 years ago. Narrative logic is murky here, but her confession is supposed to show that, on the other hand, she has not murdered her employer, a rich, loony off-islander...
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that the "life of religion is not the logic of theology but the rending of human experience." We can apply the formalistic aspects of theological study to the moral dimensions accountable to the societies in which they function and thrive. We can apply our findings to the study of the relative merits of cooperation and competition, while examining notions of equality and inequality. What do the industrialized nations owe less developed countries? What do we own the less fortunate...
...talks more about peace thanYitzhak Shamir did. But he talks about a partial withdrawal. If he sticks to this logic, there will not be peace, because we cannot give up our land. If he does not agree to complete withdrawal from the Golan, I believe he will lose the support of the Israeli political parties that demand it. There are even rabbis, including the Chief Rabbi, who have said that the Golan is not Israel's land...
...stalemate in the peace negotiations. I hope not. It would not be wise for Syria alone to initiate war against Israel. There is no longer a Soviet umbrella over the heads of some Arab countries. They cannot rely on the support of Iraq. Egypt will not join. Logic is not always the dominant fact in deciding events in the Middle East, but I tend to believe that it will not happen. But we have to be prepared for any eventuality...