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Aleixandre, a 79-year-old invalid, was cited by the Nobel Committee for "illuminating man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society...
...department considers as competent a score of 350 of a possible 500 points. Lewis said about 10 per cent of Harvard police tested do not qualify the first time, but that all of these people pass the second time. "There is nobody other than an invalid who can't make the qualifying score, in my personal opinion," Lewis said...
...leagues began in football, basketball and hockey. That destroyed monopolies. Then athletes began to learn rudiments of individual and collective bargaining. Lawyers, agents and hardheaded union men took up their cause. Finally, courts asserted that former restrictions against free bargaining for ball players were anachronistic enough to be invalid. At long last for athletes, the time is free. And what does the sports fan cry? Pity the owners...
Since when did Jill Kinmont [July 18] become an "invalid"? This word connotes weakness and sickness...
...suggest that survey data on the impact of stereotypes found in "All in the Family" should guide us in this matter. The social scientists who perpetrate this kind of scientific nonsense are hardly more than ideologues who, alas, pretend that all usage of stereotypes in creative works is invalid on its face, while of course celebrating those usages favorable to their own ideological predilections. Thus they would be the first to applaud or rationalize the stereotypes in the TV version of "Roots...