Word: deservedness
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This time Gui sent his report directly to Beijing, where it was treated with the seriousness it deserved. Henan officials were finally pressured into action, but this only made Gui more unpopular in the province, and he became the target of smear campaigns and physical threats.
In their technically difficult closing piece, “The Rite of Spring” (known to most audience’s for its inclusion in Disney’s “Fantasia), the orchestra was finally given center stage to demonstrate its strong skills, independent of individual performers...
A familiar situation. A familiar outcome.Tied at one with under a minute remaining in the final overtime period, the Harvard women’s soccer team suffered a heartbreaking defeat when Princeton senior forward Emily Behncke beat co-captain goalie Katie Shields with just under 14 seconds remaining.Last season, the...
To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistic stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's...
At nine months, a human fetus has 100 billion neurons at its disposal. While most devote their 100 billion to such mundane pursuits as hearing or kicking, the title hero in Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose...