Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher, actor, director, and writer, it is his abiding dislike of professionalism. Characterizing his life in the theater as a "love-hate relationship," he emphasizes that "there are aspects of the professional theater which appall me." Most simply, he decries the "big business of Broadway" which emphasizes a criterion of achievement "only incidently related to merit." And he finds the theater in "pretty dismal shape when we have to tout Albee as our leading playwright...
Priority by class will be the basic criterion for room assignment in all the Houses next year. Master John M. Bullitt of Quincy House suggested, however, that a year in Claverly-and other considerations might enhance a student's chances for a room in the new building of his House. He intends, however, to save a few rooms in the new building for entering sophomores to make it "well-balanced...
Glimp added that the new system might make it easier for Harvard to attract students by removing ability to pay as a criterion for room allocation. Dean Moore agreed, calling the change another stop towards "democralisation" of the House system...
...Cong continues on its ugly, bloody and wearisome course. The drive against the Communists has not diminished in recent weeks; in fact, it has intensified. Fears that the Buddhist controversy might damage morale among Vietnamese troops have so far been groundless. If last week's battles were any criterion, the government soldiers are fighting better than ever against a Communist foe that is exacting a hideous price in blood in the flooded paddies of the South...
...Census Bureau, 44% of those classified as farmers marketed less than $2,500 worth of farm goods a year. These families, whose poverty is often cited as a reason why federal farm subsidies must be continued, are not really farmers at all by any sensible criterion. Their net family income from agriculture averaged $217 a year. Their nonfarm income came to $2,884 per family. Counting them as farmers, and including their $217 a year in the national farm income averages, distorts and muddles federal farm policy. "These people," urges Professor Higbee, "should not be seriously considered when farm policy...