Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assure the play's production, Williams felt compelled to knuckle under to director Elia Kazan's desires that Big Daddy return on-stage in the last act, that Brick undergo a change of character as a result of Act II, and that Maggie become more sympathetic. Williams saw some merit only in the last, but went along with all three. In Kazan's production, Big Daddy came back to hear Maggie's false claim of pregnancy and to tell a smutty joke. This was a half-hearted compliance, but it did no real damage, though the arch of the play...
...million-year-old crystals from India. The rocks are for sale and you can choose from such exotic minerals as Stilbite bow ties, Mesolite or Okenite, either furry or on Quartz. Even if you're not in the rock market, the shapes and colors of these stones merit looking...
...generally operated on the theory of a laissez-faire of merit. Despite its injustices?the disastrous schooling of the poor, for example?the diverse system has remained sufficiently open to allow leadership to rise from nearly every rank of the society. In fact, the WASP establishment has long wondered what went wrong, how it lost control to the coarse ethnic heirs of Jacksonianism. The dispossessed of American life are to be found in The Education of Henry Adams as well as The Autobiography of Malcolm...
...sure that many middle-class whites who are not "making it in America" read your cover story with great interest and enjoyment. Unfortunately, many of these whites have been bumped out of a livelihood by blacks who advanced by means of quota and token systems rather than by merit. While striving for equality through "legal discrimination," haven't we initiated a greater injustice...
Still, Soglin has had his problems. Many policemen are upset over his support of David Couper, 31, an iconoclastic police chief whose enforcement of a merit system for promotion has made him enemies on the force. Members of Madison's business establishment feel that many of Soglin's committee appointees lack the expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head...