Word: invalidism
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...Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone had signed for the ticket, but no one could find it. Sanchez sent them a photocopy. Two weeks later, Scott pronounced his entry invalid, claiming it had been improperly altered...
...world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted with hatred for liberalism and the non-Catholic world...
Elizabeth Fennema, a member of the education department at the University of Wisconsin, yesterday criticized the statistical techniques of the Johns Hopkins group. She said their research was invalid because its initial intent was not to study difference between the sexes. "The study was not a study. It was an accumulation of a numbers of things over a number of years," she said. Fennema also disagreed with the researchers' interpretation from the data that superior male ability in mathematics might be a genetic pattern, pointing out that the study included only a narrow sample of students. "They (the tested sample...
Another group offers methodological criticisms of sociobiology. In particular, they question Wilson's reliance on analogy and metaphor, his speculations on human prehistory, and even his postulation of selective advantages for types of human behavior, such as aggression or homosexuality, which they regard as arbitrary and invalid categories...
...father and suffering from nervous attacks. William, her eldest brother, became America's foremost psychologist and one of the leading philosophers of the nineteenth century; another, Henry, now ranks among the greatest novelists in the English language. Alice, lacking their confidence and powers of expression, became an invalid. Like John Marcher, a character in one of Henry's later stories, her hallmark was "precisely to have been the person in the world to whom nothing whatever was to happen...