Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hospital from 1932 to 1967 and the author of a series of widely used intelligence tests, including the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; in New York City. A critic of conventional IQ tests that measure only reasoning and logic, Wechsler argued that intelligence is actually made up of a variety of factors, including temperament, impulse and instinct...
Brooklyn, 1945. The Pollacks are bone-poor. They lead lives of congealed desperation, though their dialogue sometimes glints with the leapfrog logic of Allen's idiosyncratic humor...
...specific answers to these queries prove elusive, there is one overriding response to all of them: this film is a fairly typical example of the new incoherence in movies. Especially in the action genre, simple logic-let alone good craftsmanship-is no longer considered a requisite for the audience's pleasure. The theory seems to be that if the characters run around enough, encountering in their hasty passages sufficient amounts of shocking behavior, no one will notice that the story makes no sense. A simpler way of saying this is "What's good enough for television is good...
...President since has been up to that measure. But no President has ever had such a crisis, one that would so surely get people's attention and inspire cooperation. The 100th-day ritual is not without some logic. It is a reasonable time to take stock of the start, but it is an uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn...
...counting on French apprehensions, rather than gratitude or affection to win Giscard another seven years in the Elysée. "Where Mitterrand represents adventure," says one aide, "Giscard stands for security. He may be cold, but he's a pilot." That reasoning is an appeal to Gallic logic at a time when many voters seem tempted to exercise their equally French passions...