Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever was during its original run when it never cracked the top 20. It was slightly anachronistic in heyday. Beaver's parents. Ward and June, were a little too perfect. But we always knew what to expect from them, and the lessons they taught Beaver and Wally are as valid today as they were 25 years...
...question of how soon in his life Jesus knew that he was God. Sockey also assails the catechism's discussion of birth control. The book, says Sockey, "stands by the fact that many Catholics disagree in practice from the church without saying clearly that contraception is not a valid option...
...double standard is certainly one valid explanation for the level of public doubt which female victims of sex-related crimes must often endure. But there is another explanation which extends beyond feminism--to victims of both genders and of all ages--and involves a more general human tendency to pull wool over one's eyes. Most people simply do not want to face the disturbing fact that a women might be risking her well-being simply by walking into a bar: that some men and women sexually assualt their own children: that some septuagenarians sodomize toddlers: that, in short, there...
...Hansberry seems to have constructed A Raisin in the Sun from the critical vantage point of the possibility of universal love. While the result is staggering, one immediately wonders if it is always possible to respond so feelingly to life and art. Are there some feelings which are less valid than others? Are there people whose feelings are less valid than one's own? These are unpleasant questions; but the very graciousness of Hansberry's spirit provokes them in the narrow hearts of her audience. One leaves the Mainstage production theater, glad to have seen the show, but wishing, perhaps...
Williamson immediately discards the notion that the self is not a valid subject for poetry. Perhaps too immediately, because that argument has often been used as a basis for pot-shots at poets of all types. But Williamson sees no need to go on the defensive, and the assumption that underlies his refusal "to apologize for regarding the self as one of the great human and poetic subjects," is a correct one. As Williamson points out, such poetry is less susceptible to vague abstraction since it less often presumes to make universal generalizations. He does not need to add that...