Word: valid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do' ... A psychoneurosis, on the contrary, is a certain malum poenae - an 'evil men suffer' or 'undergo' . . . Confession presupposes the power to sin and to turn from sin and seek forgiveness ; analysis usually presupposes necessity and impotence...
Saroyan is an entertainer of a kind overrated by some people and underrated by others-a very gifted schmalz-artist. In the schmalz-artist strength and weakness are inextricably combined-the deeply, primordially valid, and the falseness of the middle-aged little boy who dives back into the womb for pennies...
...Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...
...events during and since the survey was taken, the responses to some of its questions-especially in the U.S., where our survey was completed before the coup-may now be outdated. On the other hand, many of the replies, as indicated by Europe in the Spring, are as valid today as when they were given...
...Benzedrine binge. Newsmen had never seen him so elated. Everything that had happened to him lately, he bubbled, had been good news for him. And now Henry had just learned that California's Independent Progressive Party, formed to support Wallace, had qualified for the ballot (with 295,951 valid petition signatures). In California, left-winger Robert Kenny, leader of the "Democrats for Wallace," cried: "I now feel like that fabled man in the French Revolution who said, 'There goes the mob. I am the leader. I must follow them...