Word: validness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Further, it seems as though students too often confuse protest for divestiture with protest against apartheid. They are not the same issue. Divestiture is only one of several valid methods of opposing apartheid, but hardly the best. The victory is not won when Harvard divests or when every university, city town and corporation in the world divests from South Africa. The victory is only won when apartheid has been crushed. And divestiture, by itself, will never bring an end to a system so firmly entrenched as apartheid. Only internal revolution can burn apartheid to the ground, and economic pressure...
...preferential practices for a given class of persons (though occupational and educational preferences for war veterans were and are so declared), what I call de facto affirmative action amounts to very much the same thing. And, like current practices, the de facto variety had a morally and politically valid rationale surrounding them--they serve the ends of justice and equality in a society that has always been innicent enough to proclaim candidly that each citizen warrants a fair bid for these ends. Pity that the New Right now rejects this innocence...
...threat from the masses left out of the Mexican miracle which worries Riding. What Mexico faces instead, he cautions, "is a mutiny of the middle classes inspired by the right." A valid point, and one borne out by the experience of other nations faced with the problems Mexico must deal with in the next few years...
...Good design" used to mean "modern" design: simple form derived from a direct accommodation of function. Never mind that this style tended to frustrate the human craving for ornament and historical continuity, or that it often clashed with its surroundings. Orthodoxy decreed that modern, $ functional form was the only valid expression of our time...
...However valid her complaint might be, the timing of Kirkpatrick's latest protest raised questions about her motive. She has revealed her desire to leave her U.N. post and to find a position closer to the power centers in Washington. But last month, President Reagan appeared to end her hopes with the assertion that he did not see any available foreign policy position in his Administration that would be "worthy...