Word: deservingness
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John Simon, theater critic for New York magazine, may be the meanest man on Broadway, but he rarely stoops to ad hominem attacks. He stoops to ad feminam attacks instead. Reviewing Liza Minnelli's new musical, The Act, he wrote: "I always thought Miss Minnelli's face deserving...
THE "PROBLEM OF THE POOR" provided the main drama for the middle class of late Victorian England. To ignore the poverty in the middle of their riches would only bring the rumblings of working-class revolution closer to home. To indulge those who had themselves ignored the middle class doctrine...
Annie Hall. Even though it's based on his real-life relationship with co-star Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's latest--and arguably best--film is far more than cinema a clef. Allen's sensitive, sometimes painfully realistic portrait of a failed love affair between a neurotic but lovable New...
In a popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in...
It is little wonder that many gifted minority students have poorer grades and test scores than less able white students who are not handicapped by the same socioeconomic disadvantages. The goal of the minority-admissions programs is to seek out minority students who, notwithstanding inferior grades and test scores, are...