Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the demand to enter the program probably will far exceed the available openings, Millikan sees the criteria for selection as one of the keys to its success. He recommends that only college graduates be accepted, at least during the program's first years. Their selection, he says, should be based partly upon scholastic achievement and partly upon personality assessments. But because academic standards vary greatly throughout the country, some kind of sectional quota system may have to supplement the actual selection criteria...
...unhealthiness of this year's season is all the more tragic because off-Broadway represents the main hope for original theater in America. It costs too much to fail on Broadway; the risks make creativity too expensive. Off-Broadway, however, a production can be launched economically, and thus financial criteria needn't be the ultimate standards for new work. The loss would be great if the box office became more important than the stage off-Broadway...
...criteria for selecting musical productions have not been completely worked out, according to one member of the Advisory committee...
...criteria of good and evil are to be found in man's nature; man is naturally a social being; therefore the good of society is man's good. Theft, for example, is wrong because it subverts the basis of social life, as does any private injury to another. When there is conflict between the satisfaction of two natural requirements, the rational (therefore the lawful) course is to subordinate the lower to the higher. Thus self-preservation is good, but to refuse to risk one's life when the well-being of society demands it is wrong...
These cold war criteria of judging nations, Hughes charged, have resulted in an "either-or mentality," Kennedy, be pointed out, has written off Ghana, Guinea, and Cuba to the Russians, forgetting that those countries are far more interested in the welfare of their people than in choosing sides of the cold...