Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information on his case by telephone from the U.S. Attorney's office. Unwilling to surrender without legal advice, he contends that every lawyer he contacted wanted between $500 and $2,500 to take his case, so he returned to Vancouver. "If I had had the opportunity to do valid public service four years ago," he says, "I never would have left the country." On the other hand, John Barry, 22, a draft-dodging San Francisco musician, hired a lawyer and gave himself up to the same U.S. Attorney's office. Considered a hardship case because he supports...
...explained in a preface to the Guide, so that its users can assess the degree of confidence they should place in its findings. This past year the Committee on Undergraduate Education evaluated 36 courses using a computer-tabulated questionnaire that was distributed in the courses evaluated, thus insuring a valid sample. On a numerical scale of one to five representing the gamuts clear--muddled, dull-lively, and thought provoking--pedantic, Phil 8 scored respectively 1,9,3,7, and 1.8. In each case Phil 8 was higher than the average of those courses evaluated. Given that the course...
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism...
...analogy to the 1950s is only partly valid. Studies by Daniel Yankelovich, the public-opinion analyst who periodically surveys American youth, document the fact that the social and moral values that flourished on campus in the 1960s "have grown stronger and more powerful." More liberal sexual mores, a lessening of automatic obedience to established authority and skepticism about the U.S. political process seem to have become fixed characteristics of most American young people...
...would do better to choose the second best because it appeals rather than the best because it is dictated. Far too many delights have gone untried because they have come in second in some arbitrary rating system. Given the success of The Best, Voltaire's warning seems more valid than ever: "The best is the enemy of the good...