Word: validate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before, and what to expect in the year to come. Very few lines are worth reading, we think--after all, does it really matter what any newspaper's three critics thought were the ten best restaurants? However, Vincent Canby in the Times actually used the forum to make a valid point: with all the talk about Star Wars and escapism, it's worth remembering that people's reaction to the Cowardly Lion didn't tell anyone much about World...
There are many valid reasons for the great American love affair with the kitchen. Starting with the G.I.s of World War II and continuing with the tourists lured to faraway places by low-priced jet packages, solid steak-and-tater burghers have returned home by the millions with tingling memories of the rites and delights of other nations' tables. Julia Child's 1961 book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her superbly low-key, artfully maladroit TV demonstrations were immensely influential in persuading her fellow citizens that serious cuisine is not some kind of Gallic voodoo but rather...
...movement is very young. Nine years ago, when I would talk about a woman on the Supreme Court, people would look at me as if I were crazy." No longer. Sums up Pam Faust, executive director of the California State Commission on the Status of Women: "The changes are valid and profound. Whether or not you're for the women's movement, it has changed your life." On that there is no argument...
Boston Edison's present suit also aruges that the decision of the BRA board was not valid because four of five board members are serving beyond the time limit of their original appointments, and the board's autonomy is undermined--so it is possible for Boston Mayor Kevin H. White to remove them at any time...
...does offer, however, some sketchy ideas about the direction in which modern societies should move. The point he stresses most strongly in response to new ethnicity sociologists like Michael Novac, who see a retreat into ethnic culture as a valid response to the dehumanizing aspects of modern industrial society--is that industrial society is here to stay, and that the answer is not to "escape into primordiality," but to accept modernity and think about ways of shaping it. In addition, he warns the peoples of the Third World developing countries that transcendental nationalism, while a necessary credo in the process...