Word: deservingness
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There is a school of thought which holds that bullfight bores are more deserving of ball-bat anesthesia than jazz bores, but this school is wrong. A bullfight bore may re-enact Manolete's death spasms, but a jazz bore will replay the same Charlie Parker record, with contrapuntal...
A student periodical which does not deal with either crises of identity or last summer's libidinal souvenirs is a refreshing innovation. Good kiss-and-tell novels are always welcome, but it is fine to see that one of the Houses has found a way to publish deserving student academic...
The Sylvanias, Peabodys, Oscars, Grammies, Christophers, Tonys and countless other awards had already been announced. What could the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences do to make its own Emmy awards add up to something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few...
She told him to repeat after her the act of contrition: "0 my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell, but most of all because they offend thee, my God, who...
Clinical candor about sex and the uncommuncative discourse of the hipster are poor substitutes for sound thought and mature craftsmanship, whch explains why so few of the works of the Beat literati have been interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in...