Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for three New York students who are living in dormitories, the high schoolers commute from neighboring communities. Although the committee admitted no student from other parts of the country, it is eager to do so in the future, provided that the applicants have valid reasons for wanting to come to Harvard. As one student put it, "The Summer School is not a summer camp for people who have nothing else...
...suppose the Connecticut Stratfordians thought the Shaw play a valid choice since the title characters were both treated by Shakespeare. But where is this to end? Shall we in future find them putting on Kiss Me, Kate and The Boys From Syracuse? And then Elmer Rice's Hamlet-based Cue for Passion, with afternoon showings of the movie Joe Macbeth...
...Varieties seems to mix the ridiculous with the sublime. But that is exactly James's point: all religious experiences are equally valid. It is the experience that counts, not the quality of the discovered belief...
...calm, rational deliberation is the only way to produce wise laws. Negroes have certainly gained a great deal through previous demonstrations, but they were dealing with local authorities, not federal ones; and they were often dealing with businessmen, not legislators. I am not saying that the myth is a valid one. But it maintains a strong grip on the mind of the average citizen...
...Says he: "Circumstances command that the hospital be primitive in keeping with the primitive state of the people." He believes that Africans enjoy discomfort, and that they are often afraid of a gleaming white modern hospital, but not of one that reminds them of their villages-a concept less valid today than 20 years...