Word: non-sequitur
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Victor Koivumaki has thought out the school bussing issue quite honestly, listed the pro's and con's on both sides, and opted against the technique. He is persuasive much of the time, slipping only once into a non-sequitur, He says that "it is not the role of the militant, transient, outside groups to stir up agitation in school districts for local action," and yet confidently suggests that "the money that would be spent on large scale bussing programs could be put to better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation...
...epitome of the non-sequitur gag, the elephant joke is the shaggy dog sto ry's direct descendant. Secretaries giggle over them, teen-agers torture their parents with them, scientists - laughing - regard them as an escape from an overlogical and overmechanical world...
Director Frances Royster has used a deft hand in keeping Roses abloom. For better or worse, her refusal to relinquish a good, crackling laugh turns the serious side of the play into something of a non-sequitur. Miss Levine may, of course, have written it in as such. At any rate, John McLean acquits himself with versatility and a feeling for the contradictions of "The Doctor's" character. Jane Schroeder is marvellously funny as the hostess, and as Rosie, Deborah Steinberg may yet prove the playmate of the western world...
...produced a film of real stature, a film whose symbols of all our world are not overt and strained." In his unflagging admiration, the reviewer praises Rossellini's wastefulness in the first part of the film, implicitly credits him for De Sica's fine acting, and concludes with a non-sequitur referring to On The Waterfront (an American film, you see). Such tangential nationalism is not only confusing but self-satirical...
...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...