Word: deservingness
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The nobility has grown so numerous that today it would take 16 double-decker buses to haul all the members of the peerage to the House of Lords. As Emerson observed in 1856, they belong to an "aristocracy with the doors open." In contrast with Europe's titled bluebloods...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim...
A.S.P.A.U.'s success is based not only on rigorous selection but also on ample financial support for deserving winners. African countries pay transportation; other help comes from U.S. foundations. Full tuition scholarships averaging $1,000 a year are provided by U.S. campuses. Room and board averaging $1,800 a...
For the facts of Nixon's failure point to what I thought an obvious conclusion: he simply wasn't good enough for high American politics. One could stop short of this judgment and damn him as an opportunist, I noted; or one could deny the judgment, as Mr. Von Salzen...
Monroe Engel '42, lecturer in English, felt that "there are obviously more deserving people around who've been passed over too long." Engel agreed with Bush and Alfred that Frost would have been a more logical choice.