Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARTEREAU, by Nathalie Sarraute (250 pp.; Braziller; $3.75). This novel, by the author of the diamond-hard Portrait of a Man Unknown (TIME, Aug. 4, 1958), suggests that reality, like a geometer's plane, has only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and uncle, develops an obsessive womanish curiosity about manners and motives. He becomes acute enough to predict the exact course of his relatives' household skirmishing, and concludes therefore that he understands the skirmishers. His error does not matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid...
...another action, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson said he has filed with Superior Court a bill of equity contending that the absentee ballots previously identified by the District Court are invalid because they had been marked with the names and addresses of the voters...
...signed the oath, but attached a three-paragraph proviso, thus making the entire oath invalid. At the same time, Mather issued another statement, calling the oath "completely antagonistic to the spirit which breathes through the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." (He smilingly recalls, however, that he constitution of the Commonwealth was out of print at the time, and that he "couldn't find a copy of what I was swearing to uphold...
...United States. Maas explained that the historical approach would give the Harvard department a "unique" position in this country; could draw on the strength of other departments here (History, Economics); and would reinforce the integrity of geographical research, which some feel is being jeopardized by extreme and perhaps invalid outgrowths...
...another development, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson will ask the Election Commission, pending a District Court decision Nov. 23, for a recount. Watson said that should the Court rule the 104 allegedly questionable absentee ballots invalid such action could "materially affect the distribution of surplus votes...