Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin argues it this way: "There's no patent on it. It's just feeling things. A housewife in Nebraska has soul, but she represses it, makes it conform to a lot of rules like marriage, or sugarcoats...
...could lead them. Ford's own books demonstrate a patience for technical and archival research; he has absorbed a mass of seventeenth and eighteenth century documents from Strasbourg. Paris, and Vienna in several dialects. Yet Ford, unlike other Faculty members, will not admit that scholarship is the only real criterion on which permanent appointments are based. He points out that ad hoc committees have rejected several departmental recommendations in the last couple of years specifically because the candidate had no demonstrable teaching ability...
Rusk's proposal dripped with insincerity. He suggested such "neutrals" as Belgium and Japan, ignoring the newly-created United States criterion that an acceptable site must have adequate communications facilities for both sides. Conspicuously, Rusk's ten did not include Paris, the only Western capital with which the North Vietnamese are in touch and which they might accept...
Koblitz also criticized Phi Beta Kappa's method of election, calling "grades a ludicrous criterion of intellectual worth...
...criterion of "balance," which the Council of Deans feared was open to misunderstanding and its critics feared was open to misuse, is gone. Now educational stations will be able to televise any Harvard program with educational content, no matter how lopsided it is politically. The only qualification the Council of Deans insists upon is that the participants have the right to veto TV coverage. New or not, this is the policy the University ought to be following on televising campus events, and it is a policy worth stating affirmatively as the Administration...