Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proud Traditions. As Salutin's play suggests, there was a time when Les Canadiens worked as a symbol for Quebec spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal...
There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks. Two years ago, in a book called Time on the Cross, Economist-Historians Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman accumulated a mass of data on antebellum life in the South. They fed their statistics...
In proposing his alternative system, Henry does not make his case strictly by reasoning. But he proposes that if God exists at all, it is reasonable to suppose that he has spoken to man and that he has conveyed rather specific information: "Christianity does not communicate a message sounded by...
Laid-Back Lives. With his dark suits and white shirts, Carney's character could not be more conspicuously out of place in modern Los Angeles. Then there is the glaring contrast between his tough, rational practicality of mind and the laid-back characters he keeps en countering. How, one...
Other less traumatic mix-ups are bound to arise as Americans trade in their historic furlongs, acres, bushels and pecks for the more rational, if less poetic meters, hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per...