Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ridiculed the "bewildering Catch-22 logic" behind the 1985 Aguilar vs. Felton decision forbidding public school teachers to instruct in parochial schools. He remarked that the court's generally high level of neutrality between what he called religion and irreligion (e.g., barring prayer in public schools) would have struck the framers of the Constitution as "bizarre...
...course would be an eye-opener to most Americans, who rarely reflect on the quantity of slang and colloquialisms they use. Even the President talks about making some foreign government "say uncle" (an expression from the Irish anacol, meaning mercy). Non-slang can baffle by its seeming want of logic. Is a billboard a board on which you stick a bill? Jingle? "Is that an Irish song?" a student asked. "What does it mean," another wondered, "to kick...
Since Alien had brilliantly exploited this limited form right up to its limits, "everyone said there was no upside to doing a sequel," Cameron says. "The logic was that if we turned out a hit, it was because Alien was a hit; if it was a flop, it was because we did it." He needed to find ways of cross-referencing to it, reminding viewers of a beloved source, which he managed in both small and large ways (they still serve corn bread on spaceships, and Aliens' voyagers do not like it any better than the Alien crew...
...corruption that gambling could attract, Puerto Rico could have outlawed betting altogether, stated Justice William Rehnquist for the court, and the "greater power to completely ban casino gambling necessarily includes the lesser power to ban advertising of casino gambling." More ominously for other advertisers, Rehnquist suggested that the same logic could be used to justify governmental restrictions on other "products or activities deemed harmful, such as cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and prostitution...
...freedom (the founders reserving freedom pretty much for white male property owners and countenancing the enslavement of blacks, for example). Nor will the star-burst rhetoric discuss the heartlessness of much American freedom, the bleak lives of those who cannot compete. Freedom has a lot of Charles Darwin's logic prowling around in it, hungry for the weaker animals. Says Economist William H. Branson: "What we've seen since 1981 is the difficulty people have if they lose. They shoot themselves. I was talking to a group in Pittsburgh, and a guy got up and said, 'My brother shot himself...