Word: invalidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnival by the Sea, the heavy is Mrs. Albany, an aging invalid whose home, an abandoned coffee shop shaped like a huge coffeepot, stands on the barren dunes of the California coast. In two days' action, well padded with flashbacks, Mrs. Albany racks up a high score in pure malevolence. Among other things, she drives her stepson to alcoholism and her stepdaughter to an early death. She also pushes her only daughter across the brink into insanity. Her husband, a doctor, leaves home and dies in the shack of a friendly doxy...
...After winning back their posts by order of the state supreme court, 22 of the facultymen dismissed for refusing to sign the University of California's now-invalid loyalty oath found that they would probably have to go to court again. Reason: by a vote of 14-6, the Regents refused to pay their salaries for the 2½-year period they were...
...action, as a valid attempt, directed either toward a useful or arbitrary end. Perhaps this will lead to a recognition of his non-attempt to inflict the injury known as "McCarthyism," and the positive attempt at safeguarding democracy, regardless of whether a good is morally acceptable if achieved through invalid means...
...oath of loyalty to the Communist government signed by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Poland (TIME, Dec. 28) was an extorted one, said the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. "An oath taken under such conditions is objectively invalid...
...tacit agreement with his sponsor, Hallmark Cards: "If I do four or five popular hits, then they'll let me do a serious show." Among his other serious shows to date: the trial of Socrates and a rather flat version of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid ("It laid an egg, but in ten years my sponsors will be proud they were among the first to produce Moliere on TV.") Next month McCleery again turns to Maurice Evans and Shakespeare with a two-hour production of Richard...