Word: lucidities
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...each article she contends with the faults and merits of a different structure-a method which, unfortunately, emphasizes single monuments at the expense of a feel for the organic whole. Pictures of each building let the reader assess for himself her lucid and perceptive analyses...
...worked out the economics of the [new] life style." True enough. But it is doubtful that one can know what institutions will look like after a sweeping cultural revolution. Furthermore, the best revolutionary tactic, as Louis Hartz has said, is that which "makes the future both mysterious and lucid" -lucid enough to give people the confidence to act, but not freighted with details which can be compromised to reinforce the status...
...noted, with his usual bad taste, that "Garry has taken to the Left with alcoholic gusto." Buckley is trite, of course, but also inaccurate, for, Willis has rejected just about every coherent political philosophy- from Fascist to radical- in this book. In six hundred sprawling pages of not very lucid prose, he has condemned almost every politician he comes across...
...President launched into a variation on his inaugural theme of civility and lowered voices. "The time has come," he said, "for us to recognize that violence and terror have no place in a free society." His speech was an appeal to "the rules of the game," a lucid and occasionally eloquent invocation of decency, self-restraint and mutual tolerance...
...they do, they don't believe what they read. In any event, rather than taking the time and the space in this letter to correct Mr. Plotke's inaccuracies of July 24th concerning the contents of the paper. I instead urge your readers to consult your straightforward and lucid news story of July 14th...