Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate the usually vulgar behavior and attitudes of their admirers from the quality and meaning of their work. They become engulfed in their popularity; to outsiders, they become obscured by the swarm around them. This phenomenon is particularly true of figures in the world of entertainment, and even more valid when applied to deceased entertainment figures, blurred or overwhelmed by their constantly receding popularity. Still, some of these figures--particularly the true giants of their fields--manage to shine through their haloes, as it were. By their lives, reputations and mostly by their works, they remain in sharp focus...
Again, this observation hardly rates as an intellectual or journalistic breakthrough, but it is still valid. The point simply struck home with an unusual force Saturday afternoon, perhaps as a result of the contrast between a pleasant, idle afternoon and the suddenly not-so-distant mess of the nation, brought into focus by the daily paper...
Quite a rap at Western democracy, particularly the U.S. version. How valid are Solzhenitsyn's criticisms? TIME asked eight Americans-all members of "the ruling groups and the intellectual elite " that Solzhenitsyn was scolding-to respond...
Thernstrom said the present format of general examinations is a valid one for "testing competence in a small area of history." The department should therefore be able to exercise the option of failing students who do very poorly on the test, he said...
...contested in court, and that freedom of the press under the First Amendment gives newsrooms much more protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than is granted, say, to banks or doctors' offices or private residences, under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White concluded: "Valid warrants may be issued to search any property ... at which there is probable cause to believe that fruits, instrumentalities or evidence of a crime will be found...