Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tugging the viewer through the streets and salons of la Belle Epoque Paris, Schlondorff offers less a version of Proust than a pictorial comment on him. For Proust the heavily draped and cluttered rooms, the constraints of clothing, language, manners and social ritual were familiar givens, matters for exquisitely observed...
What sweet revenge to see Reagan--whose affirmations of Ma, apple pie, and all values American, had taken the place of intelligent argument--beaten at his own game by a man who was ready to crucify himself on the cross of rational discourse. What guilty pleasure to watch the President...
Even if Deng's regime does abide by the terms of the treaty, its successors could easily reverse or rewrite it. China has proved to be singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to...
In February, then-first-year law student Carol S. Steiker '82 told a cheering crowd. "The immediate objective is to abolish grades as a workable criterion for Law Review selection, and to force the Law Review to turn to a more rational means of selection."
There is no question that this country has felt a powerful impact from the Judeo-Christian tradition. A great deal of the impact on the founding of this country, on the Constitution, and on people like Thomas Jefferson came from the Enlightenment, which offered a rational, ethical approach to government...