Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be different, perhaps, if Trilling pulled the reader along, meeting arguments, persuading one to see the logic behind her position. But because her positions rest so completely on assumptions and faith, Trilling can only deal with disagreement as the church once dealt with heretics; quarrels over her conclusions rapidly degenerate to the level of medieval clerics hurling epithets. The argument is reduced to long and involved footnotes, in which Trilling uses personal attacks to discredit her opponent...
...Walsh angrily stalked out of the University of Texas at Austin and worked at a string of odd jobs. Now 25 and the retiring editor of the Daily Texan, she speaks of her radical past as of a different era. "I've really calmed down and seen the logic of the middle ground," she says. "I'm just not ready to shout rhetoric any more at the cue of a red or black flag." Walsh is flying to Italy in August for a ten-month internship with the Rome Daily American. There her salary will...
...this William Goldman's script lays out with admirable clarity and for something like half the film's running time. When events begin to overwhelm dramatic logic, Director Attenborough loses his design in the smoke and din of a huge, confused battle. Then, too, there is an attempt to humanize the conflict by recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford...
...Wake, are novels in the form of dreams, granting wit to animals and game pieces, annihilating space and natural law. The Rev. Charles Dodgson considered these volumes mere entertainments. Most of the author's adult life was spent as an Oxford don, pursuing the arcana of mathematics and logic...
Speed lay in little pools all over the coffee table's scarred mahogany veneer. Small white tablets, slouched in little nests, elbowing for room rolling off on to the floor. Speed. Methedrine slows everything down; people talk slower, move slower, time passes more slowly. There was a perverse logic to it--you needed more time, but the Law of the Conservation of Time prevented that, you couldn't make time. But you could stretch out the time you did have, slow it down, construct the illusion of creating more time. Everything slowed down. The perverse part was only one thing...