Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes merit the museum treatment. Those destined for collection by scrap merchants are left in the most remote corner of the Tucson center. Many pilots and other lovers of aircraft find this "drop area" distinctly unsettling and tend to avoid it. Everything salvageable from the planes stored here has been cut, pried or wrenched off. Only hollow shells are left. A couple of flying boxcars sprawled wheelless on the ground look like great, ungainly fish, beached and gaffed. The last half-dozen B-47 bombers, or what is left of them, dip crazily, their wing tips on the ground, their...
...INTEREST of musical merit, Brahms's Fourth Symphony comprised the second half of the program. Flaws of intonation and ensemble marred the HRO's performance of this difficult standard work. But these were easily forgiven in the context of the HRO's energetic and enthusiastic playing. Dr. Yannatos never let the playing degenerate into a well-intentioned shambles, but firmly structured this potentially unwieldy masterpiece...
Heidelberg's 39 trustees reached into their own pockets for a $125,000 kitty to underwrite a merit-scholarship plan. Students at or near the top of their high school class will be offered scholarships in the form of reduced tuition charges. For the most deserving, as much as $1,000 will be sliced from the college's $2,520 tuition...
...year. Such a policy would probably not immediately alter the current ratio of 2.5 men to every woman, because fewer women apply. Harvard President Derek Bok and Radcliffe President Matina Horner issued a joint statement saying that the major recommendations of the report "seem to us to have great merit." The proposals still have to be approved by the faculty and trustees. But some Harvard officials and alumni are worried about the long-range consequences. They feel that the proportion of female students will eventually rise, resulting in a smaller number of male students and thus fewer sons of Harvard...
...symptom of sin. "You ignore art as so much unnecessary garbage," he howls at his tormentors, "or you blame it for your own crimes." Even members of Enderby's creative writing class see him as a "misleading reactionary bastard." He has failed, it appears, to see merit in their "free verse and gutter vocabulary...