Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade ago when trying the not unsimilar part of Goneril in King Lear. In talking of the murder plot, when Macbeth asks, "If we should fail?," her reply--"We fail?"--lacks the foreceful scorn, the reassuring incredulity needed to prop his weakening resolve. A sensual Lady Macbeth is perfectly valid, but the role requires a decided steak of masculinity, such as captured so imposingly in the portrayals of Dame Judith Anderson, Mrs. Tore Segelcke, and Siobhan McKenna...
...they are an implicit answer to the Nixon Administration's assertion that its actions in the Watergate case have been motivated by "national security." It is an adroit defense, because the phrase is so vague as to defy easy definition and it appeals, after all, to valid national concerns...
...real villain, however, is the House application system itself and the House stereotypes which it helps perpetuate. Freshman spend a year evaluating each House and learning the reputation, advantages and disadvantages of each House. By the arrival of Spring and of the assignment process, the stereotypes, whether valid or in most cases grossly exaggerated, have been passed on to another generation...
This seems to be an admission that Nixon could not persuade the Government's regular investigative agencies to do his bidding. The President instead set up his own private intelligence force in the White House. Either Nixon's leadership was ineffective?or the other agencies had strong and valid objections to his security program...
...midways, their sad freak shows and crooked games, America's traveling carnivals have spawned a rich catalogue of literature. Now, following a familiar chronology, behavioral scientists have moved in to analyze what journalists and other lay observers have long sensed. Carnivals, say the sociologists and psychologists, offer a valid test for theories about the organization of subcultures. Nightmare Alley has an orderly social system, with its own lingo, hierarchy and behavior patterns...