Word: validation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus responds by talking of de-centralization of authority as a means of making the government accountable to the people. Bundy's contrary position, insisting on a wider role for government, would be less valid if the radical view consisted of more than slogans that sound instinctively right. We are justified in asking for more concrete and practical proposals from the left to deal with the problems of complex, technological society...
...available in our society, that is, a gradual and imperceptible phase of life which leaves childhood and merges gently with adulthood, the possibility for any psychological strengths for a firmer development to mature is opened. Above all, it integrates the individual's search for an ideological form, for the valid, underlying rituals of our society in an attempt to counteract the meaninglessness and vagueness of society's conventions and values. [Ritual is used in the sense that Erikson describes ritualization: a mutually accepted interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at intervals and in recurrent contexts and which...
...with the profoundest reluctance that I take issue with the Dean's estimate. His assumption that the 30's climate served to accent the economics of The Little Foxes, and that the 60's do not, may be valid; but to acquiesce in and admire this development is to lose track of Miss Hellman and to underestimate her work. Simple avarice cannot have been The Little Foxes' overriding target, as the Dean would wish it to be, and mere human decency cannot have been its message. The economic metaphor encompassing the play is too grand and too well constructed...
...rule about writing what you know, and the resulting incredibility--a product of both vagueness andinaccuracy--takes fully an act to overcome. Much in the '30's style, with a measure of Arthur Miller, Lerner has attempted a well-knit family drama tackling a coherent question: is exile a valid means of protesting repression? Lerner narrows in on this subject through the character of an 18-year-old anti-Nazi whose conviction derives largely from jealousy. The secondary theme is thus the effect of personal motives on the legitimacy of political sentiment...
Paul's courtship catalyzes the lesbian relationship between the two girls, and for a while the triangle is a well-established and valid dramatic situation. But the creaky, mechanical ending (for which Lawrence deserves the blame) is a culpable copout. The actors deserve better. Anne Heywood, despite her non-derangeable makeup, is suitably tense and sensual, while Keir Dullea at least looks remarkably like a fox in a henhouse. And Sandy Dennis makes the neurotic Jill fully as enraging and pathetic as she should...