Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare no better. The screenplay by Herman Reuscher and Daniel Taradesh is so bad as to be ludicruous, and destroys any chance that a creditable performance could be salvaged from this trash. One gem, an example of Rouscher and Taradesh's efforts at alliteration and their aspirations to literary merit, has Catherine telling Douglas, "If you don't love me, Larry, don't lay me." Such is the level of wit in this relentlessly awful movie...
...surprisingly, the first credential Diana Trilling lists on the dust jacket of her new collection of 14 essays is that she is Lionel Trilling's widow. Not surprisingly, because--if these essays are a representative sample of her work--it is probably her only real claim to intellectual merit." That, however, would be catty...
...admission decisions. This applicant was accepted because he worked his way through Haverford College, had a B average, a 652 LSAT score and an excellent work record since graduation. In fact, every one of our decisions is objective and reviewable by the public. Each is based on individual merit and is neither helped nor hurt by one's "political clout," race, religion, national origin, name, age, sex or station in life...
...Scholarships Committee and the Schools Committees established by each of the 80 Harvard Clubs around the country. A total of about 3000 alumni are active in recruting students, with about 400 to 800 primarily involved in athletic recruiting, Dann says. "We just keep our eyes out for names--National Merit lists, science fair winners--and we also read the sports pages. It's a way to keep in touch with Cambridge, with something that meant a great deal to us when we were young," he adds...
While these criticisms sully the appearance of the consumer movement's brainchild, they do not prove that it is totally without merit. It may be difficult to determine in all cases what the consumer interest is, but it is better to represent consumers imprecisely than not at all. On the big questions--nuclear power plant siting, saccharin in foods, fluoride in the water--consumers are adequately represented. Newspapers publicize these issues, consumer groups agitate over them, and concerned citizens write their congressmen about them. But on the regulations that escape public attention--regulations determining the width of crib slats...