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That sounded like excitable rhetoric, but in fact Brown's words were hedged. "Impact" has never been a criterion of quality in art and if scale was one, all billboards might be masterpieces. The fact that the Cezanne, next to Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Bend (which cost about $5,000,000) is the costliest new picture in Washington does not mean it can be "put up against" Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Raphael's Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes...
...Full employment" has different meanings, none literal. President Nixon, in his Economic Report last February, defined it as a jobless rate no higher than 3.8%, but one of his economic advisers, Herbert Stein, recently upped the standard to 4%-a criterion most members of TIME's board second...
...determining redeeming social value, one criterion is whether or not the sex scenes advance the "ideas" of the film. Language is impeccable by that standard, Moore suggested, since sex is the idea. But what of patent offensiveness according to prevailing community standards? The judge wondered wistfully if such an innocuous film could even hope to hold its own on 42nd Street. "Judging by the current fare in New York," he observed, "this film is going to be hard-pressed to match the level of candor of its competition...
Perhaps next time around, Harvard will have advanced to the point where they will deny that sex is a criterion in choosing a president. Right now, the Corporation doesn't think it's worth the effort. The mention of a woman president last week brought an abashed smile to the face of one Corporation member and that silent, plaintive look best interpreted as "Now, come on, get serious...
...same time, the consciousness of the individual political scientist becomes a less important criterion of his usefulness. Huntington's paper is a "how to" paper; it is of immediate value, but insufficient for dealing with broad and enduring problems of political and social control. Huntington's efforts depend on research done by scholars who may in many respects oppose Huntington: nevertheless, he and his friends can employ that research to their own ends...