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...sure the firs part is all correct, but even if it is, the predictions in no way flow logically from it, "Useem concluded. "The first 14 pages seem to be very solid, very lucid analysis. The last two, which contain the syllogism and his predictions, bear almost no relation to what came before it," he said...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

...first hot breath of summer is upon the land, and with it has come a perennially deepening dementia that turns otherwise lucid adults into drooling, lip-smacking lunatics, children into chocolate-mustachioed gluttons and family dogs into insatiable beggars. This year, more than ever before, they all scream for ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: The Freeze That Pleases | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...event which at first seems so peripheral that its very prolongation, with Fleur and Bob making repeated moves toward the door, but encountering repeated delays in departure, generates a sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her chance to pierce the vulgar invaders with insights and wit, surprisingly lucid coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that good vegetable diets result in odorless feces, Catherine flips on the blender...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: The Theatregoer And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little at the Wilbur until February 22 | 2/11/1971 | See Source »

...Compared with life, which is so often messy, chaotic, haphazard, and inconclusive, a football game is a masterpiece of logic and lucid or ganization...

Author: By Peter Heinegg, | Title: The Philosophy of Football... | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...surely in a country of over 200 million-or even within the present ranks of the FBI-there must live a man whose character combines determination and administrative skill with a lucid social consciousness. Let him stand forth. As one citizen, I summon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1971 | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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