Word: invalidism
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...this commitment something that Baldwin tosses off to make a living Baldwin's work bespeaks a conviction that goes beyond even Cleaver's words, as brilliant is those are. Indeed, Cleaver's writings now seem invalid, not because the sentiments expressed in Soul On Ice have become irrelevant, but because the author has not lived up to his work. Today's Black leaders especially Jesse Jackson can learn a lot from Baldwin's constant level-heads devotion to the Black interest. the Pussycat that roared...
...time thinking his fate was sealed. Justice O'Connor, writing for the majority, found this kind of "psychological" analysis unpersuasive. There was no reason to believe Elstad's second statement was involuntary, she said. But O'Connor carefully circumscribed her reasoning, saying that a subsequent Miranda confession could be invalid if the initial admission is compelled by police coercion. Furthermore, she contended, the "bright line" of the Miranda rule remains firmly in place; "unwarned" confessions are still not admissible as evidence...
...little lad, who is, Castleton decides, "Pure Gold and all that, but inconceivably maddening." Worse, the new husband begins to take the true measure of his wife, who not only treats her servants as if feudalism still reigned and slavery had never been abolished but who hectors her semi-invalid son unmercifully: "Drink your porto and try and get a little color in your face for a change." She will make him a worthy Benoir, fit to assume his rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages...
...have been writing for a full half hour in excess of the allotted time," said the proctor. "According to university rules, I am compelled to consider your exam invalid...
...Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave, he was the only member not killed or exiled. As a republican sympathizer...