Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to have an almost physical need for triumph, and his views on subjects other than baseball reflect this. Those opinions positively swirl in quixotic logic and contradictions, but it doesn't seem to matter to Steinbrenner. He is a winner...
...that their traditions and their rhetoric are impotent. They quoted the bible, cursed the "niggers," and smiled as the words "racism" and "prejudice" crossed their lips. But their verbal jabs at busing, affirmative action and Joe Califano seemed perfunctory. It was hard to believe that the Klansmen saw any logic whatsoever in their argument against the Equal Rights Amendment--they claimed it would make unisex bathrooms mandatory in schools and in the armed forces, thereby making it easier for black men to rape white girls...
...arbitrary, just as it is arbitrary that when Red rides out of town in his new car, he comes back for the fat waitress whom he's treated with contempt throughout the film. The movie turns from sadistic to sappy within minutes; the plot has no inner logic...
...Assembly, and the alienation of the 61 per cent of the student body who as yet have formed no opinion on the assembly. To my mind, at Harvard we are individuals first, members of an undergraduate student body second and only then members of clubs and organizations. The logic of this ordering is at least that we are individuals all our lives, students here for four years, and members of groups if and only if we are here. Members of the assembly have joined a common enterprise as students, and the CDU threatens to destroy our common relationship...
There is a certain political logic to the merger. The militant Arab states, and even many of the more moderate ones, were badly shaken by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative. With Egypt neutralized, they would have a hard time presenting a credible threat to Israel. But a united Syria and Iraq, acting with the cooperation of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, would constitute what one Jerusalem official calls "a serious military defense problem along our northern borders." Moreover, the governments of Syria and Iraq are worried about the current upheaval in Iran and the rising militancy of Iran...