Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen sixty-eight had a kind of Aristotelian logic, the proportions of tragedy. Hope begot death, revolution begot counterrevolution...
...George Wallace's army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
...Nazis aimed at the complete moral collapse of their victims, because a degraded people would do the dirty work of their tormentors, and because those deprived of their humanity could be tortured and killed without unduly disturbing the sensibilities of their murderers. Levi's logic leads him to burdensome conclusions, not the least of which is that the saved were not the best but the worst, "the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the 'gray zone.' " Levi's troubled honesty is not what usually gets hailed as a triumph of the human spirit. His work dispels such cliches...
...other key issue was whether, despite earlier Soviet statements to the contrary, INF might be delinked from an agreement on long-range strategic weapons and Star Wars. Glitman took Obukhov aside and tried to persuade him of what he called the "logic" of a separate deal on INF. "Let's assume," he said to Obukhov, "that we were to agree fully with the position you've taken on INF. We could see reaching an agreement without linkage. Couldn't you?" Obukhov paused, thought hard, then replied that he could indeed see such a possibility. A few days later, after checking...
...frankly do not understand McGanney's logic when she charges that we forbid reviews to keep our deceptive policies under cover. We stopped reviews to encourage creativity, to prevent such reviews as The Crimson's personally affrontive review of Brad Dalton's "experimental" Hamlet...