Word: validates
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rationalists' objections to Kennedy's campaign point at the same flaws that many of us who support the Senator list as reservations to our support. They would be valid objections were Harvard University the entire electorate, or were Senator Kennedy's business as Democratic nominee something other than getting elected. The objections are worth exploring, if only as an indication of why Kennedy's campaign has failed to stir Harvard and similar communities to a very high level of emotional commitment...
...results: Kennedy (or leaning to Kennedy)--44. Nixon (or leaning to Nixon)--45. Undecided--13. As a portent of things to come, one simply cannot detect any definitive trend on the basis of these figures. It can be assumed, if Brooklyn's reputation as a barometer proves valid again this year, that the election will be extremely close, but this is hardly shedding any new light on the situation. As an indication of the people's mood, however, answers to the lengthy questionnaire are intriguing and quite informative...
...valid are Gallagher's accusations? While it is doubtful that Steinberg's alleged Marxist prejudices have significantly influenced the Observation Post's editorial and news policies (a nine-student board decides policy), it does appear that the editor has demonstrated some Leftist sympathies. On the other hand, Gallagher's criticisms of the May editorial and of the September articles seem rather flimsy...
Both these insights into the reasons for non-violent resistance in the sit-in movement are no doubt valid. They deal with the Negroes' beliefs. In addition, one may profitably examine motives for the behavior which becomes fused with those beliefs...
...Also valid, Huxley declared, was the Homeric view of man as essentially multiple rather than unitary...