Word: validity
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Your alarming view of the state of U.S. book publishing [March 22] is not valid for all of the country. There are some 11,000 American publishing entities outside of New York that are patiently nurturing new books, making sure that any author with significant insights or information will find a forum. A few dozen big publishing houses and the celebrity authors in New York City may be in trouble, but there is far more positive excitement than negative fear in the American publishing industry...
...about the confusion stemming from the lack of publicity concerning the turnout opponent to the referendum procedures and last week vaulted him in front of the Faculty Council to speak against the referendum results. A couple of hours spent talking in dining halls and a determination to voice a valid complaint was enough to make Smith a leader, a further demonstration of the transparency of Harvard's student leadership fabric...
What began as a popular, and populist, grass-roots sentiment has now become a potent factor in determining U.S. policy. This is the basic strength of a democratic system, but also a possible cause for concern. In an open society, legitimate movements based on valid ideals, like the arms-control crusade, have the potential to be manipulated in such a way that passions and emotions override rational judgments...
...SCHAAP saves Steinbrenner! from becoming an easy hatchet job by accepting the controversial owner on his own terms: his refusal to make the book a compendium of New York Post columns turns Steinbrenner! into a valid, if often irreverent biography. Realizing that the owner has zealously shielded his wife and children from the press, for instance, Schaap resists the temptation to delve into Steinbrenner's family life. He does, however, rightly chide the owner for hiding behind his family, Schaap's recounting of the numerous times that his subject refused to talk with reporters, lying that his wife...
MANHATTN AS A Second Language grapples with the power of language. The women in Jana Harris's poems are imprisoned or empowered by words, even the tones and textures of their voices or other voices. Even her worst poems are valid experiments displaying the voices of people Harris has heard, people who don't speak the way she would write. In these poems the language rings somewhat flat because Harris is uneasy using certain alien voices. At her best, Harris ties together the different voices with a strong, frank thread...