Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real Son of The Bitch," the text has settled into a more conventional mode as it fairly faithfully follows the thoughts and desperation of a prostitute. The words settle into calmer sequences and the characters hold onto their initial identities. This narrative that has finally found its own internal logic grows stronger in the fourth and last tales, "The Tower of Glass" and "Lost and Found." The text reasserts its power, but uses the power to defy and oppress the reader rather than to transmit the author's ideas...
Brown's unassailable logic: if the U.S. and the Soviet Union don't stop the arms race, they will 1) blow the world up or 2) simply sink below the Rising Sun from the burden of their arsenals. And even as huge forces grow less practical, many other nations are dragged into the arms competition. In 25 years the annual global outlay for arms has gone from $400 billion to $940 billion. The cost now exceeds the entire income of the poorer half of humanity...
...ordinary life. Prisoners are forbidden to write collective letters of protest. You are punished if you write to the authorities on behalf of another prisoner --say a sick man who is not getting any medical attention. The authorities say, 'Look, your letters don't help.' And they are right logically. But there exists another, inner logic: the prisoner who writes such a letter may not save his neighbor in the next cell, but he saves his soul...
...feds off America's back and has slashed and snipped when he wasn't selling wholesale. Similarly, JPK puts forward no vision of a brighter, fairer country led by responsive lawmakers committed to social justice. He instead opts to try to out-technocrat the conservatives, following the same defeatist logic that led Uncle Teddy '54 to support Gramm-Rudman's prescription for automatic budget cuts...
...picturesque California hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (pop. 4,700). Last week, listing his profession as director-producer, Eastwood, 55, filed a petition to run for mayor. Complaining that the incumbent was ineffectual, the new candidate wrote, "We need leadership, experience and some old-fashioned logic to get back on the track." He pledged to deal with such problems as parking, tourism and water. Imagine, Dirty Harry worried about parking. The 18-officer police force must be just itching to get that new boss...