Word: criteria
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Johnson, who is best known for his works on Charles Dickens, believes that satire has a profound beneficial influence because its "great criteria are truth and sanity." The duty of the satirist, he claimed, is to point out the foolishness and blindness...
...Popular Democratic Party is anti-Christian and anti-Catholic, and that it is based on the modern heresy that popular will and not divine law decides what is moral and immoral. This philosophy destroys the Ten Commandments of God and permits that they be substituted by popular and human criteria...
...best ideas of this article are the suggestions for better criteria for awards. He urges greater experimentation in selection (presumably similar to Harvard's "diamonds-in-the-rough"), and greater attention to individual projects, original thought and interpretive ability. Studies of the kinds of students recommended by various secondary schools could make grades more reliable. But the belligerence and muddled thinking of this article will not help these ideas gain acceptance. Conspiracy theories provide an easy object of blame, but too often they are unreal...
Under the influence of existentialist thought, writes Rabbi Spero in the magazine Perspective, "the criteria of a meaningful religious system are no longer the mental stability it may bring or its possibility of social acceptance, the doctrines it shares with other religions, or its sweet reasonableness. On the contrary, the very elements of Judaism which but yesterday were in ill repute-our unique chosenness, the reality of evil, the deadly seriousness and unconditional demands of the life of service to God-have today been reinstated...
...last-lap chase, he brought a surge of excitement into the race. More important, he raised an issue that will reverberate long after the convention is over and the last delegate has gone home. The issue: What is the business of a presidential nominating convention? By what criteria should it choose the nominee for the nation's highest and most powerful public office...