Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a desire to serve God and serve mankind. One serves God by serving man, and man by serving God. The two are intertwined." Besides recognized zaddikim, there are according to Jewish lore a group of hidden zaddikim in every generation, believed to number at least 36, upon whose merit the existence of the world depends. Only the virtue of these 36 hidden saints-lamed-vovniks in Yiddish-stays God's hand from destroying the world...
...Harvard, where he once taught. William F. May, 60, chairman of American Can Co., has headed his company for ten years, and has given a great deal of time to commissions dealing with crime and delinquency, racial and religious discrimination and world hunger. Among the other chief executives who merit consideration by reason of experience, intelligence and conspicuous success in business and civic affairs are Deere & Co.'s William Hewitt, 61; Du Font's Irving Shapiro, 59; and Sperry Rand's J. Paul Lyet...
...Fogg show has been a model for coins and postage stamps, and plastic statues of Rodin's "The Kiss" have been sold in mail-order catalogues. The purpose these sculptures serve in disseminating a knowledge of art over a large area makes up for any lack of artistic merit...
...especially Carpeaux's "Lion Crushing a Serpent" and Rodin's "Man With a Broken Nose"--succeed in all their versions because the original forms built by the artist are still so strong. Others, like Daniel Chester French's (the man who sculpted John Harvard) oversentimentalized "Memory," have little artistic merit either in their original or successive states...
...added that the efforts of the admissions office staff, through informal recruiting mechanisms, such as letters to female National Merit semi-finalists, may have also contributed to the increase...