Word: deservingness
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Pow to the Translator Sir: Yasunari Kawabata's award of the Nobel Prize for literature [Oct. 25] could not be more deserving. His Snow Country is a book to read, reread and to treasure. But it can be read only in English by most of us, and I strongly...
"PEEEEE-pull, peepul who need PEEEEE-pullllll. . ." Barbra Streisand, the girl with the voice of a thrush and the beak of a toucan, is back in the musical that made her a household bird. She may have omitted an a from her name, but Barbra leaves nothing out of Funny...
Of course, he has not been campaigning before the electorate. And as for delegates, they were clearly not convinced that the Vice President's rivals were more deserving of the nomination. Senator Eugene McCarthy's strategy was to force floor fights to stir up torpid delegates, but he...
Every year, 20,000 or more Americans develop a kind of kidney disease that is perfectly controllable if the patient can be regularly hooked to a machine that can take over the kidney's work. Yet the machines are scarce, and of the deserving victims only 1,400 get the...
It took the stewards at Louisville's Churchill Downs race track 43 hours of interrogation and deliberation to decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in...