Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Percy extends the metaphor to man. We all drink the water. We're all zonked out on our separate somas. But Percy's kiddie-porn portrait shocks without edifying. The metaphor, a valid one, is too sensationally packaged. Why stoop to conquer? Why exploit to elevate? Percy's better than this...
TIME AFTER time, Rushdie asks his Sandinista hosts a valid political question, to which, time after time, the Nicaraguan leaders respond predictably. And, time after time after time, Rushdie accepts their response with no follow-up and no evaluation. The book is a jungle of dangling assertions...
This is a valid, if trite, argument. But again, Rushdie cannot leave well-enough alone. Speaking with Violetta Chamorro, matriarch of the La Prensa "family," he stops believing her the moment he notices that she is wearing jewelry. She is rich and therefore cannot be trusted. His objectivity, as much as hers, is brought into question by such prejudgement. Rushdie claims he went to Nicaragua looking for answers. But he seems to have known all along what he wanted to find...
...Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply worried that this would give the Kremlin an irresistible opportunity not only to disrupt the quest for peace but also to play a considerably larger role in the region, something that Moscow has long been seeking to do. Those remain valid and serious concerns. But in the interest of stimulating discussion of Middle East diplomacy, which has been conspicuously neglected by the U.S. for the past several years, presents the following piece by former President Jimmy Carter, in which he advocates that just such a conference be convened. Carter is fresh...
While news teams from as far away as Sweden and the Soviet Union looked on, Judge Harvey Sorkow, 57, read his decision for three hours to a packed courtroom in Hackensack, N.J. Declaring the contract valid, he rejected arguments that it might violate public policy or laws against baby selling. A father cannot buy "what is already his," the judge said. He maintained that the surrogacy option was protected under constitutional privacy guarantees that include the right to procreate. In a crucial caveat, however, he said the contract was not automatically enforceable, because when conflicts arose the "best interests...