Word: invalidism
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Citing the goal of regional federation as a common strain of nationalist ideology seems slightly less invalid than including the single-party state. True, large regional groups are advocated by all the writers who comment on them, but no one yet has accomplished anything to move regional federation beyond the stage of aspiration...
...Turnpike Authority claimed the land last December by right of eminent domain, but the MDC has petitioned the State Supreme court for an injunction declaring the seizure invalid...
...before getting the critical gong on the late Major Bowes's Amateur Hour. Off-Broadway is frittering away the good will of the loyal audiences it has attracted during a goodly decade. If the present trend continues, off-Broadway will be a precocious casualty rather than a fabulous invalid. The choice that lies ahead is stern and simple: aspire or expire...
TIME'S Jan. 18 review of my book, March to Calumny, correctly emphasized its major theme-the vindication of the record of Americans captured during the Korean war. Damaging misjudgments of the P.W.s' record were based on invalid applications of historical and statistical norms. On a statistical basis, the Korean war P.W.s displayed no less courage, commitment and resourcefulness than we would be led to expect by whatever comparable events history has to offer...
...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...