Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose ideas run to trivia. His latest work, "We Hold These Truths" (Macmillan; $16.95), examines the U.S. Constitution, tracking the concept of "rightful authority" back to the Greek statesman Solon, then bringing it forward to culmination in the Constitution's codification of the world's first federal republic. The logic and progression is pure Adler, and the book's initial critical success surely comes as no surprise to the author, a man who recalls not a single failing of self-confidence. "I've never had an identity crisis," he says. "I have no insecurity. I wouldn't know what that...
...driving and Dave was still arguing, still believing. "Hey, guys, any woman who rides horses can't be fat." He was trying to convince himself that our vicious judgmental attack was not only inappropriate, but, mind you, also wrong. Girls from Iowa ride horses, ergo they are svelte. His logic was skewed, but I didn't care. It was love, love, love...
...more than ever the cottages appeared to have neither front nor back, and to stand in a kind of waste ground. It matched the people and their attitude to the place. It matched the new way of farming, logic taken to extremes, the earth stripped finally of its sanctity--the way the pink thatched cottage on the public road, once pretty with its rose hedge, had been stripped of its atmosphere of home by the people who looked only for shelter...
Education provides for this country's future, so Americans should be willing to provide for education. It falls upon the Senate to follow the House in rejecting the Administration's strained logic and legislating substantial increases in student financial...
...others do and are willing to be surrogates, who is to stop them? At the same time, Judge Sorkow's ruling is not, as the director of the Center for Surrogate parenting sees it, the second coming of Scopes. His written decision was meanspirited and often confused in its logic. But he could not have held any other...