Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presents Peachum with a clear understanding of the action-provoking role. Because of the flatness with which Kearns delivers statements sympathetic to Brecht--"The law was made for the rich to exploit those who don't understand it"--he maintains distance from his character. In his dryness and his logic, his running about and his posing, Kearns reduces the "Beggar's Friend" to a common demoninator, strips him down to the essential. In the simple statement, "Justice gives way to humanity," Kearns presents to the audience a fait-accompli which they must now judge themselves. In the same...
Given his background, Naipaul was bound to wind up at loggerheads with people who renounce logic, humanism, skeptical inquiry and the notion of progress...
Repeated encounters with those impervious to his logic turn Naipaul cranky...
...misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. We wind up driving into the adversary camp people who are not natural adversaries of the West but who become so through the logic of the situation we impose upon them. I know the president of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement, Guillermo Ungo, very well. He is a very quiet social democrat. I had lunch with him a week ago here. He is in no way a Communist...
...defies logic that the most burning issue for a Black student association on campus should be the question of "minority representation" in the Student Council. The entire affair would be laughable, were it not for the fact that The Crimson and The Independent feel obliged to waste newsprint on such pablum. We shall set aside for the moment the empirically groundless analogy which is opportunistically drawn by Asians and white gays in equating their so-called oppression with that of poor Blacks...