Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading all these learned and badly written papers in a sitting has brought on my tantrum, which is really just a simple case of grader's gout. Such is my curmudgeonly state, that if I see one more sentence of the "evaluating conceptologically valid methodologies in the light of historical analysis, on the one hand as it were, and on the other, in meshing frames of reference, so to speak" variety, then I shall take the name of Talcott Parsons in vain...
...Mankind. In the last 20 years, Lebrun has moved from drawings and wash paintings as direct and simple as those of the Renaissance to increasingly tumid and tormented shapes that at times border on abstraction. But in all his work, he insists, "the human condition is the only valid theme. I am a partisan of mankind." Then why must mankind always be shown mutilated and degraded? Says Lebrun: "I wanted to remember that our image, even when disfigured by adversity, is grand in meaning; that no brutality will ever cancel that meaning, and that a painting can enhance the meaning...
Since the student mayor had passed on the resolution, it was not actually valid. Later on, however, Councilor Walter J. Sullivan easily pushed through a motion directing the City Manager to meet with the President and Fellows about the possibility of confining future riots to the Yard or the Stadium and about University reimbursement to the city...
Though the Senator proclaimed "great respect for the academic mind," he reminded the audience that academics were often mistaken. "If Harris's argument is valid, that a $10 billion deficit is good enough, why stop at $10 billion? Let's go to $25 billion, or $30 billion? Let's just print the money...
...deciding which events to enter and how hard to run by the opponent's strength and by how good the whole thing will look to the crowd. Whether the new emphasis on the public impact of the space program will be constructively integrated into the whole program, or whether valid scientific goals will be thrown to the propaganda winds, is the question that faces Kennedy. There are several pieces of evidence as to which course he will take...