Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only for this robust fusion of music and dramatic spectacle. In Sanders, the slide-show of period engravings and photographs should make the mise en scene more convincing-and, with a little more coordination of scene changes, less awkward. In any event, Brecht, Eisler, Lehrman and his company merit the whole University's attention. Tonight may be a sequel to the teach-in. It may be something more...
Does Harkness ever become "a person?" No, but he comes closer to it than anyone else in Dealing. For the Crichtons don't bother to explore the real contours of the subculture. Which is too bad, because some of the people who live there merit attention. Unlike ghetto hard-drug pushers, college dealers are generally amateurs, or at most, semi-professionals. Some have sold their futures to the drugs they sell. But most go on living their ordinary lives, with cute incidental touches. Like the preppie dealers who boast they can tell you where the weed comes from after...
HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in these cases. If you are asked who Orton is, you had better be ready with information: he was a homosexual, a British playwright killed in a ritual hammer slaying in 1967. What comes up second when Orton's name is mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally...
...government's political opponents are coming in for extraordinarily harsh treatment. Officials in the government are conjuring up plots which they say vitally threaten the national security. And, as in the McCarthy era, there are many willing to accept the argument that the government's "enemies" do not merit the civil liberties traditionally assured to American citizens...
Last week State Supreme Court Justice Frederick M. Marshall saw no merit in the grand jury's charges. After listening to four days' testimony, including the sheriff's statement that campus officials had tried to calm the crowd, the judge found insufficient evidence to convict Hobart and directed the jury to acquit the college. A professor and seven students will be tried later on charges ranging from drug possession to riot. Tongyai, now a police-science student at a nearby junior college, faces another problem. He has been charged with collecting $700 in state unemployment benefits while...