Word: sequitur
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...redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry me"). But an overdose of comic non sequitur and an almost experimental formlessness are not enough to extinguish the real fire of Catch...
...intriguing notion that they spend too little. Public needs are underfinanced, while private tastes are overindulged." Wallich does not agree that the public addiction to chrome, tail fins, and other ostentatious foolishness means that it cannot be trusted to fill its own needs: "It is something of a non-sequitur to conclude that the only alternative to foolish private spending is public spending. Better private spending is just as much of a possibility." Wallich's article is not only loaded: it is often squarely on target, e.g., "Old federal programs never die, they don't even fade away...
...invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...
...Allen-Bradley Co., who was slapped with a $7,500 fine and whose company was fined $40,000, maintained that "no one attending the gatherings was so stupid he didn't know they were in violation of the law." Then he added, in a surprising non sequitur: "But it is the only way a business can be run. It is free enterprise...
...book is not as remarkable as its reputation. To the agonizing, centuries-old why of antiSemitism, Author Schwarz-Bart replies with a non sequitur -there'll always be a Jewry. At times this makes his novel a disconcerting cross between The Wall and a Jewish Cavalcade. His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart. Nevertheless, there are a great many moments when the book is as affecting as a wronged child's tears, and as unanswerable...