Word: deservingness
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Apart from his usual tirade against Cal's "institutional tyranny," Savio did not really explain what was bothering him or what he expects to do now. His cryptic excuse for quitting was: "Lest I feel deserving of the charge of 'Bonapartism,' which even I sometimes have made...
Should a soft breeze slip into the library and lure the scholar away, in 1959 Roger Conant Hatch established two prizes for lyric poetry. And, lest equality become too democratic at Harvard, in 1924 Carl Schurz provided a prize for a student meriting the Wilder Prize but not deserving the...
How right he was. The twelve-man "jury," drawn chiefly from members of Nkrumah's Ideological Institute, needed only 50 minutes last week to find all five defendants guilty and deserving of death.
But he voted for Patterson, 6 to 5 (one even), and the judges made it unanimous by a wide margin. Patterson had been rocked by solid punches to the head; the skin around his kidneys was covered with bloody welts. "I kept telling myself, 'You can't be...
Though gratified by the Nobel Committee's recognition of his work. Bloch feels that awards of any sort are irrelevant to science. "I have my doubts that awards serve any function at all--and I have been saying this for many years." By neglecting deserving workers, Bloch says, "Awards create...