Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many thinkers have recoiled from the logic underlying such a precarious peace. Instead of reconciling themselves to the existence of nuclear weapons, they call for their elimination, often in quasi-religious terms. But they have yet to come up with plausible proposals about how to achieve salvation...
...this self-hatred that yielded the program for the destruction of the University. Though the mediation was not merely an excuse--Harvard and ROTC. Harvard and classified research. Harvard as landlord, Harvard as strike breaker--we found no reason to doubt the logic of the syllogism: Smash Capitalism, Harvard is Capitalism, Smash Harvard...
...exploit that gender gap fully, some Democrats are flirting with an idea that has as much risk as logic: nominating a woman to run for Vice President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is behind it. So are Democratic Governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Richard Celeste of Ohio. The National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus are scrambling to line up organized support for a woman Vice President. In recent weeks, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart have been asked at every stop whether they would run with a woman; Jesse Jackson already has promised...
...sexism when he proposed that women were unfit for public office because every month they were subject to a "raging hormonal unbalance." It is a pernicious and ridiculous idea that is refuted by experience (women in positions of power do not behave any differently from men) and by logic (presumably women of mature leadership age would have passed menopause anyhow). The suspicion about feminine instability seems especially silly in the light of some of the bizarre behavior that men have exhibited in the White House?during the last days of the Nixon Administration, for example, or during the time when...
...voters, means "getting off a Republican elephant and onto a Democratic donkey going in the same direction, just a little slower. We need a new direction. It is better to lose an election going in the right direction than win going in the wrong direction." Some blacks carry that logic to its literal conclusion. Asked if she feared that a vote for Jackson would actually help Reagan, Chicago Secretary Selestine Humphrey answered, "I don't want to see Reagan back, but if that's the price black people have to pay for some respect...