Word: sequitur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good-you should laugh from the beginning until the surprisingly, tender conclusion. The play is about two characters in search of a language and contains the most brilliant wordplay on the English stage (always rich in wordplay) since Shakespeare or at least Wilde. The "Questions" scene ("None sequitur. Thirty love.") is alone worth the price of admission. At the Loeb mainstage tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday as well as next weekend...
...neither, how much literature since Hemingway and Edmund Wilson has picked up the mannerisms and styles of newspaper writing. Here, as we read the smooth flow of narratives, the captured regional accents and hestitations of the dialogues, we are almost fooled into thinking that the often abrupt, slightly non-sequitur one-liner endings to the stories may conceal some literary profundity befitting a contemporary short story. Most probably, it was merely the unmerciful cut of a harried editor...
Ambiguous Clues. Watching his sister for "signs of wellness," Richard notes, "Meg is now almost feeding herself. When she eats, food splashes over her chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...
After some hesitation, White House spokesmen admitted that Nixon's speechwriters had drafted the Ford remarks. Apart from the surprising non sequitur that Nixon's resignation and Ford's ascendancy to the Oval Office would destroy Nixonian policies, the speech was an indication that Ford may have been sandbagged by the White House. Some White House aides had been told of the impending tape report, while Ford apparently had not. Yet he later gamely contended that he still believed what he had said. He lamely dismissed the tape revelation as "a technical and confusing matter...
Thus we see that the "syllogism" that deduces the genetic inferiority of the lower classes from the "high heritability of I.Q." is not a syllogism at all or even a reasonable inference. It is an illogical non-sequitur which completely misuses technical concepts. It is not worth a moment's serious consideration...