Word: validating
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Professor Demos also approves of courses about religion, but he replies that students are not merely taught about democracy. "Don't we teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination?" Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to over look the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
Like most painters. Carles hoped for public confirmation that his new abstract direction was valid. In the socially conscious U.S. art world of the 1930s, such confirmation was not forthcoming. (In 1936 Leger visited him in Philadelphia, was amazed to find "anything like this going on in America.") Carles began painting and repainting the same canvases until they were too heavy to lift. The World War II migration of Paris painters -Chagall, Mondrian et al.-to Manhattan finally produced the understanding audience Carles longed for, but it was too late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered...
...Christmas Eve in 1948, he became a Catholic. Since he and his girl could not be married (the church ruled both of their previous marriages valid), they split up. After a year writing poetry on a Guggenheim fellowship, Everson joined the Catholic Worker movement in Oakland. Fourteen months later he became Dominican Brother Antoninus at Oakland's St. Albert's College. Except for an unsuccessful attempt to study for the priesthood ("I couldn't see it through for psychological reasons") and a three-week protest walkout (he objected to the installation...
...then Chairman of the Board of Overseers), asking "whether or not you now approve of the Oppenheimer appointment as William James lecturer," and "your views as to Dr. Oppenheimer's moral qualifications to lecture on the subject of ethics and philosophy." Though Robertson's letter began with some valid questions (the second never answered), it ended with a polemic...
...valid baptism in case of necessity, recognized by the Roman Catholic Church even if performed by a nonbeliever, provided that the one baptizing really "intends to perform what the church performs...