Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valid critique it certainly seems to be. It is as if some overwhelming fear precludes a discussion of alternatives: "massive retaliationists" seem allergic to consideration of what might happen if they should be wrong, and disarmament advocates refuse to discuss the matter entirely...
...tiny-minority argument is valid in Georgia and South Carolina, what of heavily Roman Catholic New Orleans, where Catholics have wound up in the same dilemma of spirit v. reality? New Orleans' ailing, octogenarian Archbishop Joseph Rummel spoke out sharply and clearly against school segregation as early as 1954. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament recently advertised in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Forced segregation violates both justice and charity." But when the school crisis came last fall, the archbishop postponed parochial school desegregation until public school integration "has been effectively carried out." The wholly temporal reason was that...
...Neat Trick. "Claire McAuley" was married in the church at the age of 18, and two years later, "after a series of misfortunes which eventually saw my legal, valid husband behind bars and bigamously married to another," her bishop granted her permission to get a civil divorce. Thus at 20, the mother of a small son, she found herself legally free but ecclesiastically still married. When she met the man she "realized was the one with whom I should spend the rest of my life," she was confident God understood that her first marriage had not been a marriage...
TIME makes a valid point in criticizing the current tendency of popular records to cannibalize one another. Singing verb conjugations of the You're All Wet (thesis), No I'm Not All Wet (antithesis), He Was All Wet and Now He's Got a Cold, Kachoo (synthesis) type is unforgivable. They are symptomatic of the control over radio programing that children and adolescents have today. Records that allude to one another and answer one another are designed to give the children who listen to them, buy them and dance to them a feeling of continuity...
...Jencks' recent article on Church-State relations ('Congress Shall Make No Law...') provides the reader with such a potpourri of conflicting opinion that there is some danger that he may have missed the very valid point of the article...