Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Illinois President David D. Henry fired Biologist Leo F. Koch after Koch wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. Said Koch: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating their own codes of morality and ethics...
Korn denies all this. "Susskind's statements are so wild they are flattery to me," said Korn. "For Open End, he seeks provocative sensationalism only. I am for controversy, but I want a valid treatment in taste and depth. David is preoccupied with sex. All he wants is a girlie show...
...mind chooses to suit itself, and decides what particular sensation shall be held more real and valid than all the rest." This is the essence of the Gestalt doctrine of perceptual constancies. of course, in proposing such a theory, James was rejecting the passive, reactive, blank tablet model of the mind, which one associates with the Anglo-American tradition...
...older criticisms of NSA--that the structure of the Association made opinion unsure--were to an extent valid. The structure of the Association through which a given school, or individual is represented is complex and often chaotic...
...view of liberal education. I talk only about Philosophy, because that is the only subject with which I have been closely acqainted. It may be that my conclusions apply also to other departments. I have the impression that they can be generalized a great deal, and still prove valid...