Word: sequiturs
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...letter's non-sequitur conclusion reasons that the homeless ought to be treated to care in a proper shelter and that the greates do not simply make the problem "just 'go away.''' Well then, what might we do to lessen the problem? It is my hope that the students, the Administration, the Cambridge community, and the city government all make efforts, however they can, to combat the homeless problem. One Leverett House student involved in homeless work noted that this will take commitment on the part of the entire community, not just the shallow enthusiasm that we have shown thus...
...Washington, the honorees--avant- garde Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 66, Actress Irene Dunne, 81, Comedian Bob Hope, 82, Playwright-Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, 67, Composer Frederick Loewe, 84, and opera's Beverly Sills, 56--were wined and dined for two days, but not quite as usual. Cunningham, "the non sequitur of the evening," said his publicist, was served special macrobiotic dinners. And Dunne, disappointedly, was unable to attend the grand finale after back-pain medication made her ill. Hospitalized, she sent word that "the show should go on," and that it did, in a star-studded tribute taped for broadcast...
...role of any corporation to take responsibility for its investments. Is that the precedent Harvard wishes to maintain? Withdrawing from a corporation is as respectable a form of expression as voting on shareholder resolution. If shareholder resolutions don't work adequately, withdrawal is a logical sequitur. Yet Bok characterizes divestment as some kind of revolutionary act of terrorism...
...university auditoriums. Two months ago in Berkeley, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a group of them managed to jeer U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from the stage, temporarily. She canceled her lecture scheduled for the next day. The student senate, in a masterpiece of smug non sequitur, sent a letter of regret that observed, "We cannot help but find it somewhat inconsistent that you feel such great concern for your own freedom of speech while blithely accepting ... so much misery and lack of freedom throughout the world...
Senator Bob Packwood complained that Reagan has a different shortcoming: when confronted with a serious budget proposal, the President tends to respond with a non sequitur."Didn't they know," chortled Congressman Barber Conable of New York, "that successful leaders often must fill awkward moments with digressions...