Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The ruling stemmed from a 1969 murder case. While receiving outpatient psychiatric help at a campus hospital, Prosenjit Poddar, then 26 and a student at the University of California at Berkeley, said he intended to kill his former girl friend, Tatiana Tarasoff, 20. On a psychologist's orders, he...
Rain Clutter. The Coast Guard in Miami responds to the many inquiries about the mysteries of the triangle with a prepared handout that presents a rational explanation of the hazards in the area. "It has been our experience," the Coast Guard says, "that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability...
"More importantly, people aren't rational all the time, and very, very often if the gun is there they will use it, whether it be in a family argument or a drunken brawl," she adds. The Eisenhower Commission report bolsters her position with the conclusion that the victim knows his...
Commenting on last week's decision, Skocpol said "I'm glad that the tenured faculty did the rational thing and set up some meetings we could participate and vote in."
I wonder if Goya's faith in reason endured the Spanish-French war, which ended in 1813. For the question of his time was a gnawing fear that greed and lust might indeed win out over the pull of rational thought. For as Goya's contemporary, Alexander Pope, once asked...