Word: logical
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...that society would deem sane or normal, and by the end of the play the two ‘sane’ characters are proven to be pretty much as crazy as the four patients, and the four patients throughout the play prove to have quite a sense of logic.” The four patients are not diagnosed with particular disorders. Rather, each character represents a general “type.” There is Jackie (played by Sarah A. Sherman ’09) an extreme introvert, Thomas (Benjamin C. Cosgrove...
...radical critique of system-internal social change depends on a much more sophisticated argument than its detractors realize. According to the egalitarian, democratic principles that ground genuinely leftist projects, the type of political venture embodied by Obama and his ilk is dreadfully misguided. Because it relies on the logic of representation, the system-internal strategy endorses a conception of power that ultimately stultifies those it originally sought to serve. It expects the newly-empowered to represent their constituents’ interests completely. Against this, we must assert that the disconnect between power and the people—intrinsic to representative...
...part of the “civilizing” mission of the British, whereby British colonial presence in Egypt was justified with claims to liberate “native” women from oppression—all while Englishwomen still lacked the right to vote. Horowitz’s logic is nothing more than colonial feminism in today’s neo-colonialist...
...make clear to those who choose to build in the highest-risk areas that they are effectively on their own - a message the insurance industry, which has grown reluctant to protect exposed properties, is communicating to Western home-owners. But while it's easy to see that logic - and to point fingers at the very victims of the fires - this week it's impossible not to focus more on the terror and worry of those whose homes are at risk, like Lee Hamilton. By the time the 60-year-old San Diego radio personality woke to a reverse-911 call...
Indeed, this danger makes the logic of hyper-assimilationist Asian Americans very fatally flawed. For them, and for me, mainstream American values become a baseline assumption, instituted and enforced by pressures of environment. An understanding of prior values and circumstances is rarely given extensive thought...