Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hughes's arguments do not represent a large segment of U.S. public opinion, but they do epitomize much of the moral confusion the West has suffered in contemplating The Bomb. Historian Hughes bases his case on the theological principle that a war can be considered just (among other criteria) only if the means employed are commensurate with the ends gained. Hughes believes that in this sense World War II was a just war, but does not think that the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War or World War I were worthwhile. He also believes that the destruction caused...
...Nevertheless, despite . . . gnawing doubts about the soundness of our criteria, I believe that the present Harvard student body is much the ablest academically in our history. What gives me even more satisfaction, it is an extraordinarily fine collection of human beings, by any standard. I have more doubts about the ability of Harvard College under present conditions to give these men an education worthy of their quality than I have about them as men or scholars...
...admission for college and graduate school should be the same has generally been associated with the names of E. Bright Wilson and George B. Kistiakowsky rather than the Faculty as a whole. But in judging success of past policies, the Faculty committee relied explicitly and wholly on two criteria number of degrees with honors and rank list standing: perhaps Bender has more cause for worry than the mousy disavowals of the Faculty report would lead one to believe...
John Hancock's production of As You Like It, the current offering of the Harvard Summer Players certainly fulfills and overfulfills these minimum criteria. Most of the actors both knew their lines and were able to speak them quite clearly. And, of course, not a few of them are a good deal better than that. As Rosalind, Jane Quigley is lively, deft, and confident. If her manly colloquialisms as the youth Ganymede occasionally savor more of the Bronx than of the Home Counties, why it is all spirited and very amusing...
...other criteria that I postulated earlier were met by Mr. Hancock whose direction was quick, witty, and ever resourceful, and by Ian Strasfogel, whose all-purpose sets evoked the court of France and the forest of Arden with equal grace and imagination. In fine, it was a pleasant evening, and that it was not a particularly challenging one for either actors or audience is really not a reasonable ground for complaint. I cannot complain...