Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another aspect of Hobson's research involves the study of dreams themselves and the analysis of their surreal content. "All dreams have several things in common," he says. "There is memory loss, hypervisual imagery, bizzareness, poor logic and vagueness. We began to study what constituted 'the bizzare...
...some of the other points in the resolution, however. I simply cannot agree with the Council's logic. The College has both the right and the legal responsibility to set appropriate rules for its dormitories and to require that students meet both. College and legal standards as far as possible. In the case of kegs, I find it hard to justify permitting them in dormitories which are essentially 100 percent populated by students below the legal drinking age. Kegs are almost by definition a part of large group activities, not private activities restricted to a single room or suite...
...logic behind a line item veto is simple. By putting the entire federal budget into a single omnibus spending package, which the president must ratify in its entirety or veto (thereby shutting down the complete federal bureaucracy), legislators can insert a number of pork-barrel expenditures to please their constituents and improve their re-election chances. That is simply the nature of the legislative beast...
...descend, mysteriously unquenched. The lagoon seems to be at or above the level of his hideaway, yet his chambers remain unflooded. Allow oneself a moment's skepticism and the story turns to piffle. But audiences give themselves over to the fantasy concocted by Prince and Designer Maria Bjornson, letting logic evanesce as long as the sights and sounds are glorious. Which they are: bolts of lightning, carpets of fog and flashes of fire compete with the Phantom's midair descent in a chariot of gilded cherubs and his final disappearance while sitting on a solid-looking throne...
...youth oriented, and the culture was all youth oriented." Today, says Hoffman, it is not only that the baby boomers are getting middle-aged. The entire society, he thinks, is in its atomic middle age -- even the young today are middle-aged. The theory has a limited, even narcissistic logic and a certain charm...