Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...penned the original story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who scripted the film, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote the book for Applause, have done is to reverse James and produce a clever little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will sustain...
...left with the freedom, but also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity of fighting American aggression. They accept that necessity as valid and meaningful. They can therefore find meaning in the lives they are forced to lead. From them, we will have to learn...
Many Americans now argue that the U.S. should not be asked to defend Western Europe when the Continent is capable of defending itself. In the long term, the argument is valid. But it fails to take into account the present sensitive, and perhaps promising, political situation in Europe. If the Nixon Administration says that it intends to withdraw large numbers of American troops, the U.S. and its NATO allies will lose the opportunity to use those troops as a bargaining counter for comparable force reductions by the Warsaw Pact countries. By the same token, Willy Brandt will not be able...
...unsettling reality now is that increasing numbers of authorities are beginning to wonder whether all that agony was worthwhile and whether integration is still a valid goal. Many Southerners can contend with some justification that skepticism is rising only because the North is beginning to feel the integration squeeze. Yet it is true that in few places in the nation is integration an unqualified success...
...machine on its own terms. Using a computer available to his company, he dispatched punch cards to the traffic violations bureau. Said the civilian computer to its official cousin: "Apparently the letters sent to the humans who try to control you are being disregarded. The violation is not valid. I suggest you instruct them to erase the ticket from your memory bank. I hope you can make them understand...