Word: logics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly melodramatic goings-on, including an illegitimate childbirth in the street, a scene full of authentic Faulknerian gore. Author Stone is expert at suggesting the blend of revival-meeting urgency, circus gaiety, and kith-and-kin intimacy that flavors rural Southern politics. But the serpentine twists and turns of logic in his novel would tax Laocoön on a good wrestling day. There is a baffling subplot about a priggish schoolteacher and his nymphomaniac wife, who farms out her favors on a faded billiard table. Though the teacher is unnerved by a hint of scandal, he spends most...
...years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year's most chilling novels. It is as free of sentimentality as a native spear, as relentless in its bitter logic as simple hate...
...baffled reader may well ask, in Desmond's own words: "God damn it all to Hell, what on earth [is] going on?" Yet he will be persuaded by Author Cusack's virtuosity with word and image that the confusion has its own logic...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...
...logic behind these particular forms of tax is that the products and services taxed are basically luxuries; thus, these increases will "soak the rich" without hurting the poor. While the idea involved may be quite noble, the facts of the case do not jibe with the principle. To many New Yorkers, neither taxi rides nor restaurant meals are luxuries; and, as the cabdrivers have pointed out, the taxi tax penalizes one segment of the population for the benefit of another, no more deserving group...