Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Christ in the middle of the night and wanted to know the lowdown. . . .") is the latest addition to the pious parade of current religious novels. Its appeal to readers is likely to lie less in its literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...
Vladimir Horowitz's new recording of three Chopin selections (DM-1034) contains not only examples of the most widely different Chopin moods, but equally valid illustrations of the best and worst in Horowitz...
...first movement, and the other running pizzicato through the andante mosso. The blown-up, excessively melodramatic performance (including the shaking, not vibrating, string) which Koussevitzky provides does not, however, penetrate deeper than the outer edge of the surface. However popular the interpretation may be, it cannot be considered valid; it stuns the audience, but it is not within a mile of the composer's intentions...
...Rights for the vanquished: "One who seeks reparations should base his claim on moral principles, respect for those inviolable natural rights which remain valid even for those who have surrendered unconditionally...
...hard as he tried, Chester Nimitz never succeeded in explaining his reversal of position, or in making his arguments jibe with his new conclusions. Rather, they tended to justify his original promerger stand. Many of his suddenly real ized objections to merger were just as valid on Dec. 8, 1944. But now he said: "We should be certain that we do not destroy the strengths of our present sys tem in accepting a new and untried...