Word: sequitur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures have a Doppelgänger relationship. Each is the split image of the other. Since the exercise of power and authority is one of the few remotely coherent themes, the two men may represent the eerie bond between Germany and Hitler. Otherwise, the evening is one interminable non sequitur...
...Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, were pleasant indulgences paralleling the post-Wood stock "back to the country" bulls being issued by the Papacy of hip AM radio and sundry rock publications. Indeed, with "Uncle John's Band", the Dead had something distressingly close to a hit. A non sequitur for many...
...candid, we were not above its nihilism. But our liking for The Bald Soprano was not the product of our baser thirteen year old instincts. After a childhood of Dick and Jane and Landmark hero stories it was delightful to read lonesco. The nonsensical alliteration, the rapid non-sequitur of outrageous cliches and, most of all, the abandonment of oppressive logic was wonderful for our stunted Junior High School minds. It was our first taste of intellectual mirth...
...appalled many people outside his special world. However, Royko notes, the official strategy chosen to turn away public wrath was right in character. "It was damn bad reporting," the mayor's public relations counsel said, mildly chiding the press as he presented them with a classic non sequitur: "They should have printed what he meant, not what he said...
...latest book is filled with the favorite Buckley gambit,: proof by non-sequitur. The idea is to make a proposition and then surreptitiously prove it by some trivial argument which you present as an aside but which actually takes up most of the piece. Johnson's State of the Union message, for instance, is analyzed in terms of the syntactical construction of two sentences in a manner that suggests that if Bill Moyers doesn't brush up on his Strunk and White the Republic is in trouble. The triviality inevitably derives its impact from the original assertion; thus many pieces...