Word: invalidations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device is not inherently invalid and unbelievable, as the critics maintained. The falling-off in the third act cannot be laid to one gimmick. No; it is more generalized than that. What Albee failed to do was to keep up the drive and level of writing achieved in the first two acts. Let no-one think that Act III is weak by itself; it simply pales after the two hours of extraordinarily sustained energy that precede...
...dealing with "nuclear holocaust," however, Miss Mead said that "the identification of war and personal violence is invalid, and the distinction between good and bad wars is irrelevant. We are dealing with the issue of whether or not there will be any human beings," she said...
...took more sorrow to make Eleanor become Eleanor. In 1921 Franklin was stricken with paralytic polio. She nursed her husband, fought off his mother's inclination to keep him an invalid at the family home in Hyde Park. She also encouraged Franklin to seek the governorship of New York, which he won in 1928. She was less than enthusiastic about his pushing on to the presidency, but once he decided to run, she worked hard...
...Roosevelt needed the detailed attention of a specialist in diagnosis. But she was as contemptuous of fuss and feathers in regard to her health as in other matters; she brushed aside suggestions that she subject herself to major medical procedures. Mrs. Roosevelt was unfitted by temperament to be an invalid. She liked to say: "I'm too busy to be sick...
Applications for Yale game tickets must be turned into the box outside the Department of Athletics; 60 Boylston St., by 5 p.m. today. All undergraduate coupons are totally invalid after that hour. Application envelopes are available from the ticket office at the department...