Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of programmed logic and binary code. No more categorical imperatives, just capricious decisiveness and contingency plans...
Nichols couches it all in a style that is less than classically literary. His short, direct sentences are unmistakably journalistic. Indeed, he is not above beginning a sentence, "The reason I believe this is because..." And the logic in those sentences often falls even below their style. Nichols describes the papal selection process as "carried out by a hundred or so members of the most exclusive caste to gather anywhere in the world to elect an international personality." No doubt this is the most exclusive caste to gather to pick an international celebrity--and probably the only...
...team completely without logic or losses for two months, San Francisco is a defensive power under an offensive coach, a sensitive inventor named Bill Walsh. The defense is founded on two known mercenaries (ex-Charger Fred Dean and ex-Ram Jack Reynolds), who argued their way out of other towns over money and who now "lecture" on motivation in San Francisco, and three unknown rookies (Cornermen Ronnie Lott and Eric Wright, and Safety Carlton Williamson). When was the last time anyone heard of an all-rookie secondary in the N.F.L...
...Game is almost always decided by intangibles, often ironically. If the wind hadn't been blowing last year, Cozza would have gone for a field goal instead of the fourth-down eventual touchdown. You can probably find one crucial play in each of 97 previous encounters that defied the logic of football and the odds, besides...
This is a tale of three sisters. One is a spinster, one is a sexpot, and one is a screwball. The tangled web of relationships they weave possesses sprightly humor, zany logic, folksy warmth and a tincture of poignancy. The author's first full-length play and a Pulitzer prizewinner, Crimes of the Heart is a kind of in-depth soap opera that reveals character even as it unravels situations...