Word: logics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barenbaum suspects, it will be reinforcing a division which already exists, not creating one. Perhaps the most ridiculous contention in the article is that our nation's print media automatically creates a binary opposition (Ebonics/standard English) by using standard English grammar when writing stories about Ebonics. By this logic, anytime a newspaper or magazine discusses Japan, it should be in Japanese, else there would be an English/Japanese binary. To use a more extreme example, anytime there is a story about blind people it should be written in braille, to avoid the braille/English binary, etc. The implications of this logic...
...that what is is the best that there can be. It claims as beneficial the tension experienced by minorities here because such thick skin is what it takes to make it in the real world. But a double standard of comfortability seems to be at work in this mean logic. Certainly WASPs have the need to feel comfortable on this campus, and no one faults them for retreating into their final club lairs. (I know, I know, you have a black (two!) Hin those clubs, and a handful of Jews.) Of course, women also have such a need...
...biggest problem they face is that if Yeltsin were to pass from the scene tomorrow, not a single member of his team is believed to be capable of winning the general election that must, according to Russia's 1993 constitution, be held within three months. By the brutal logic that prevails in Kremlin corridors, that leaves only one obvious solution: change the constitution...
...invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section of the movie...
...lives. As you put it, he is "the man who is shaping our future." And Gates, with his materialism and hunger for power, seems to be more a detriment to society than a positive influence. By worshipping knowledge over wisdom, by embracing greed over sharing and by clinging to logic without spirituality, he epitomizes the attitude that has brought our world to the sad condition it is in today. GEORG VON BAICH Toronto...