Word: deservingness
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Members of the Economics Department, having watched two of their colleagues rise to Nobel fame in the past two years, agreed that Leontief was a deserving but hardly surprising choice.
The reader feels a certain sympathy for these lofty wretches. Since they are not very likable or high-minded or deserving, but simply very human, this says a good deal for Ward Just's skill. There is not the slightest hint that the author has enrolled real people under...
Sir / Clifford Irving must pass his now dusty "Con Man of the Year" award to another deserving trickster, Richard Nixon.
Lame Answer. Chairman Ervin sharply disagreed with Mitchell's prediction of dire consequences had Nixon been told the truth and suggested that even if the President had "lowered the boom," his decisiveness would have impressed voters, and "he would have made his election more sure than ever." That was...
Nonetheless, from this brief but far-reaching display of capsulated argument, Kolakowski gives every appearance of deserving his growing reputation. As if the effort to relativize Moscow's dictates to the Communist conscience weren't enough, a Marxist with a sense of humor ought to be heard. Kolakowski is more...