Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When clergy demand laws against gambling in a state where it is legal, or withhold communion to prevent discrimination, it becomes ludicrous to pretend that religion and government are absolutely divisible. American religious freedom rose out of such a notion, but it is only valid compared to states with established churches...
...greatest difficulty that the Avant Garde greeting card company has had to face is unique: since only minors were involved, no one could sign a valid contract. But John Singleton, a Cambridge printer, and then other firms, were excited by the cards' commercial potentialities and sealed working agreements with the students. As if an undergraduate company hadn't individuality enough, they were now doing business on the honor system...
...decaying, and the trouble is too much freedom, too little stability, widespread amorality brought on by "the great democratic mess in which there's no hierarchy, no scale of values, everything's as good-and therefore as bad-as everything else." This dour viewpoint may be valid, as cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that produces satire. Burgess writes comically enough about TV-induced catatonia. the god-awfulness of roast mutton, and the entanglements of adultery, but the reader feels compelled to check each incident with the solemn...
Pusey is reported tiring of his work as acting Dean, and casting about for a successor to Bundy. Perry Miller and Arthur Maass are consideed among the front runners for the position.... The State Department announces a new stamp to appear on all American passports: THIS PASSPORT NOT VALID IN COUNTRIES WE DON'T LIKE... Castro protests the designation as "provocative." ...Harvard, unsuccessful in its attempts to purchase the MTA lots, finally buys the entire MTA system. Governor Volpe hails the move as the "renaissance of private enterprise in the Commonwealth." ...Athletic Director Bolles, looking for a new football coach...
...self-governing Algeria, with an administration decentralized according to "the geographical and ethnic diversity of Algeria"; presumably, this would mean redrawing department boundaries so that Moslems would have clear control in areas where they were in the vast majority. These "institutions," said De Gaulle, will be valid only "until the day when the future decisive consultation of the populations will either conform, modify, or reject them...