Word: deservingness
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Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University...
THE PASSING of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company last fall was the occasion for just as much gloating as mourning. A vocal contingent of inveterate Gilbert and Sullivan scorners saw the company's demise as a fitting end for the world's leading enforcer of dramatic stagnation. Thousands of...
As a nurse and a Christian, I find it difficult to believe that God would direct Oral Roberts to build an edifice such as the City of Faith [Nov. 16] in Tulsa, a metropolis already overloaded with hospital beds. Surely He would have selected a more deserving location, like Mother...
For archaeologists, who are often accused of grave robbing, the Indian war cries should come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, militant Orthodox Jews in Israel clashed with police during protests against excavations in an area of Old Jerusalem considered sacred ground, a medieval Hebrew cemetery. A year...
Second, Engelmayer fails to distinguish between acting as if the world were rational, and planning rationally how best to deal with an irrational world. The method of principled negotiation outlined in "Getting to YES" is an attempt at the latter. Far from assuming or pleading for rationality, Fisher and Ury...