Word: merit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen or even lived what he shows ourselves; nothing in You Are What You Eat is new or exciting. Since the film has no characters, there is no personal story we can wrap ourselves in. Nor, of course, is the movie's subject artificial, so as to merit derisive laughter. The film is just an unnarrated documentary with a few moments of performed entertainment stuck...
There are several crucial problems facing this nation which are not receiving the public attention they merit...
...Sheriff, Sears has promised to make the best of a bad job--he plans to abolish it. The Sheriff oversees the Charles Street Jail, which the police commissioner could do, and the dispensing of patronage, which could be replaced by a merit appointment system...
...BRITISH army which Richardson depicts is one where command is based on wealth rather than merit, and army life is ruled by absurd traditions and savage discipline. This is the army of which Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), the man who was to lead the charge of the Light Brigade, is the symbol: the film's Cardigan is a cantakerous old fool who purchased his command, and squandered it with the evil courage of a suicide-victim...
...Senate contests need not be looked on as outlets for the expression of anti-war sentiment only. Several candidates, like J. William Fulbright (Ark.) and Wayne Morse (Ore.), merit support despite erratic domestic records, and several others, like Leroy Collins (Fla.) and Birch Bayh (Ind.) merit the same despite weak Vietnam stands...