Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uphill battle to stay in business. Many industry observers question the new venture's timing. The three networks' share of the over-all TV audience has dropped sharply, and advertising revenues are stagnant. Cutbacks, not expansion, seem the order of the day. "I don't see the logic of what Fox is doing," says CBS Entertainment President Bud Grant. "There may not be enough of an audience or sufficient advertising revenue to support three networks, let alone four...
...University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, Hook established a well-founded reputation as a secular humanist. He questioned received ideas and challenged those who substituted passion for logic. The professor played no favorites, and few were happy with his investigations. To '30s conservatives, he seemed a Marxist apologist; to '60s New Leftists, he was a cold warrior. But as his autobiography proves, the only group to whom Hook paid strict allegiance was the party...
...However," the usage instruction goes on to say, "this usage is by now such a bugbear to traditionalists that it is best avoided on grounds of civility, if not logic...
...example is Susan Cavin's Lesbian Origins, hailed by Women's Studies enthusiasts as a future "classic" in the field. Cavin doesn't screw around, so to speak. The book's first sentence is blunt: "I am a lesbian feminist sociologist." Pages later, having uncovered "a logic to the ideology of sex," debunked "capitalist patriarchs" and explored "Cross-Cultural Lesbianism," Cavin waxes philosophical...
...affirmative action, school busing and various black leaders. While he likes to ascribe the unconstrained viewpoint to unauthoritative authorities like Ramsey Clark, Sowell often attributes the constrained vision to masters like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who provides some splendid dicta. For example, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." And, "Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." And, "It is desirable that the burden of all should be equal, but it is still more desirable to put an end to robbery and murder...