Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First, some claim that the present students are better students than those who would replace them, and thus that the national interest would be impaired by wiping out the special interest of the academic incumbents. This objection has little, though some, merit. Money is not the sole criterion dividing students from non-students in American society, and abolishing the 2-S might lower the general standard of education somewhat. But this unverifiable and hardly earth-shaking possibility cannot counterbalance the gross injustice of the present system. Concern for national interest should override concern for equity only when the national interest...
...electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
...proper criterion for admittance to the honors program in history--and in other departments--is the ability and willingness to do honors work in that field, not grades which may reflect performance in entirely different fields. Here the History Department is contemplating a step backward, while other departments (English, for example) have been advancing to less narrow grade requirements...
...never land of ambiguity. Having attacked the canons of classical art, he now seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality. The unsettling results seem to totter between a sinister vision and a deceptive festivity. Such ambivalent reactions suit Dubuffet fine. He long ago stated his own criterion: "Art should always make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore...
...which a publication is advertised does not affect its content. The other tests for obscenity, that the work appeals to "prurient interests," that it is "patently offensive," and that it is "without redeeming social value," all refer directly to the substance of the material. But the advertising criterion is a tacit admission by the Court that it cannot draw a clear distinction between a work that is obscene and one that is not on the strength of the material itself. If a book is not "patently offensive," how can the way in which it is publicized make...