Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wicker's analysis may be simplistic, but it has merit. For instance, it explains the urban warfare of modern America. Police are not brutal or racist when they shoot to kill, or beat up or harrass "violent subhuman beats." They are protecting normal society. They had to get Fred Hampton before he got us. It is not surprising, then, that "they" populate the Atticas of America...
...seek out the crass version in the Combat Zone, and will pay through the teeth to have it served up with a veneer of class. For this reason Emmanuelle isn't just a skin flick, but has been made into a film with towering pretensions to philosophical and artistic merit. These conceits make the film ridiculous where it might otherwise have been a little boring, but nice to look...
...always been at the base of the progressive vision is genuine democracy, the rule of the people in all aspects of society, political, social, and economic. It is, in a way, the crimination of the job one does, or the income one receives, as a criterion of power or merit. It is the democratic vision in its fullest from...
...Special Merit. The fourth vow originally made Jesuits available for any tasks the Pope desired, whether to stem the tide of Protestantism or spread the gospel to other continents. The source of the present trouble is that while most Jesuit priests once took the fourth vow, today less than half are permitted to do so. The vow has evolved into a sign of special merit based largely on scholarship. Only those who take it hold leadership positions, including all seats at the current General Congregation...
...Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home. Alexander (Dick Anthony Williams) has gone mad, but he has been a black poet, playwright and screenwriter of merit. Fragmented episodes indicate how he has bobbed for the white man's Golden Delicious apple and drowned in economic and psychic abasement. He is dying; perhaps he is already dead. Obfuscation ranks high among Playwright Gunn's defects...