Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Mangione's search for a more valid identity and sense of place than is implied by "half-and-half" led him to books, to the studies of the sociologists, finally to Sicily itself. "... I began asking myself questions like these: Was it in the chemistry of human life for my relatives to become Anglo-Saxonized-the apparent goal of the melting pot theorists? . . . Was it necessary that they try to change themselves? Didn't America need their wisdom and their warmth, just as they and their children needed America's youth and vigor...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court set aside their conviction and instructed every State to recognize Nevada divorces. For the Williamses, for uncounted* Smiths, Joneses, Thompsons, for Elliott Roosevelt, Barbara Hutton and Edgar Rice Burroughs, a six-week divorce became as valid in strait-laced North Carolina as in tolerant Nevada...
...test of battle is the only valid one for any Army or Navy plane...
...They claimed that, having governed India for 168 years, they were better prepared to meet India's present crisis than well-meaning intruders. They asked how, with a Japanese invasion threatened, immediate Indian independence could be granted when the Indians could not agree among themselves? This was a valid point, but twistable...
...relation to their ideals, to "assimilate their own tragedy," rather than fleeing to comforting but false "eternal verities," is well taken. In the case of Huxley and T. S. Eliot, however, he fails to make it clear why the Christian mystical experience is not a valid truth-criterion for anyone lucky enough to have...