Word: validating
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...formidable challenge. Churchgoers today are "theologically illiterate," says Lutheran Minister Richard John Neuhaus in Freedom for the Ministry. A lot of things have to be explained rather than taken for granted. (A recent Christianity Today-Gallup survey showed that while 84% of Americans believe the Ten Commandments are still valid, more than half could not even identify five of them.) Preachers have less time in which to do the explaining too. Says Donald Macleod, who has taught homiletics at Princeton for 32 years: "The minds of listeners are geared to TV and the 30-second commercial...
...seems that Reviewer Christopher Porterfield went to the film Don Giovanni [Nov. 26] with a preconceived notion of how it should be played-with an emphasis on the lighter side. This is, of course, a perfectly valid interpretation. However, Joseph Losey chose to look at the dark side of Don Giovanni. You must remember that this work, with its terribly ambiguous juxtaposition of good and evil, is open to as many interpretations as there are productions...
...Pentagon they call it the "Bay of Rugs." The humor is a little weak, but the point is valid. Just as the Bay of Pigs in 1961 sobered John Kennedy's Government, so has the Iranian crisis shocked today's Washington into a new sense of reality...
...commit an act of impropriety, as I was fully aware," Kilson said. But he added he did not intend to offend York. He said he recognized that the student perceived his behavior as a sexual advance and called it "a valid perception," but said he believes she misinterpreted his purpose. He added "my general affectionate air could be misinterpreted...
Several Law School students said yesterday they believe the limit is very arbitrary. "A lot of people want to go for valid reasons, and they admit that the reasons are valid," one student said, adding, "They ought to take each case on its merit...