Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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While Fulbright asked valid questions about whether the South Vietnamese will be able to hold off the Communists and what Nixon will do if they cannot, other Democratic doves hurled overstated broadsides. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called Vietnamization "a semantic hoax," adding, acidly, that it is "simply an extension of the Johnson for eign policy." South Dakota Senator George McGovern termed it "an effort to tranquilize the conscience of the American people while our Government wages a cruel and needless war by proxy." He even charged peevishly that the Administration was using the Pentagon to attack his patriotism...
...Subpoenas are commonly used to compel personal testimony or the production of documents before official proceedings, usually a judicial hearing such as a grand jury. They are available to both the prosecution and defense. Unlike warrants, their justification need not be demonstrated in advance before a judge, but their validity may be challenged after they are issued, on the grounds that they are oppressive, burdensome or irrelevant. Anyone failing to comply with a valid subpoena order is subject to a contempt citation and, often, jailing...
...today the difference between anger and hatred. Genet uses the word "hatred" constantly in this play. Anger is the kind of thing Ed Bullins is writing about, and Leroi Jones, with "eighteen muthah-fuckahs" and "I'm gonna kill yoah ass" and all that. Which is perfectly valid, and thef're absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi" He can sit back and say "I'm going to kill you." And smile, and smile...
...think that Jones is still about what he was about in Dutchman. "Bitch, I'll snatch your right tit off!" Which is anger. Valid anger...
...Psychology Department has told both Papousck and the American embassy in Prague that the invitation to become a visiting professor is still valid, Roger A. Webb, lecturer on Psychology, said, Beyond that the department consensus is that it is "better to do nothing," Webb said...