Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensorialism was founded by 35-year-old Jean LeGrand, a dark-eyed, pale, intense man from the south of France. His theory: nothing is valid except sense experience, in which sex experience, being the most intense, is the most valid. Even the Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade...
...members of the Liberal Union may perfectly well not be Communists, the overwhelming majority of the members of the Liberal Union concluded that AYD's origination in the Young Communist League and the antics of certain of its national officers render the charge that AYD is Communist-inspired a valid one. However, the fact that Communist front leadership has been decisively rejected does not mean that the Liberal Union has completely resolved its own version of the liberal program. For if the rejection of AYD leadership means that eventually it will lead to driving AYD members out of the organization...
...newly-bought power for intellectual purpose, despite the sensual opportunities offered. For the sake of "theatre," the Tributary group has avoided the aspect of introspection into character, and has played the vehicle for its spectacle. But in Elizabethan drama, interpretations are innumerable, and last night's offering was effectively valid...
Stating that, "neither I nor anyone else has the right arbitrarily to by-pass the constitution," he observed that the only legitimate way to bring the Council up to its quota was by the existing constitution, which must remain valid until it has properly been replaced or amended...
...before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...