Word: sequiturs
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...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...
...Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, her autobiography, revised seven times during the author's lifetime until the bridge between fact and fancy simply collapsed. Carry's lively imagination was impatient with the truth-which was crowded out of the book anyway by endless non-sequitur quotations from her favorite authors, Shakespeare...
...from last year's bestselling piece of pop history by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, tries to tell the story from about 60 points of view at once-some German, some American, some Free French, some Vichy French, some utterly unidentifiable. The result is a 161-minute non sequitur in which the spectator is shrapnel-splattered by bit parts and bitty scenes until he can't for the life of him figure out who's who or what's what...
...Henry Livings, is a comedy of incongruity, unpredictability, originality and farcical absurdity. Its hero, Valentine Brose (Dustin Hoffman), is a Buster Keaton in a mod outfit who occasionally breaks into sly and menacing smiles. His mind is a running assault on logic. He is a living non sequitur. But his madness is the sanity of seers...
...Prexy Ronald Nairn of Prescott College [Sept. 23] acknowledges the enduring mystery of his own ignorance when he justifies the absence of education courses with the non sequitur, "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it." Such Neanderthal thinking will earn him guffaws only from those mossbacks who believe that there have been no breakthroughs since the time of the Greeks. He might begin his search at Harvard, whose classical curriculum has not suffered from the fact that doctorates in education are offered there. All disciplines have advanced in recent years...