Word: meritably
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McNally's prose undermines his work. In an overly naturalistic tone, ideas tumble out, one after another, unordered, unexplained. Each sentence yields another non sequitur. This style has its merit. He captures perfectly the inarticulateness of human psychology. The helplessness of the characters, the half hearted flailing of the plot, and the unfathomable morass of the prose are expressive and poignant. But they do not make a novel; they do not satisfy the reader...
...president said in a telephone interview following yesterday's meeting that he believes the students' academic demands--including those for greater emphasis on ethnic studies--merit serious consideration...
...short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this infelicitous statements provoked additional discomfort among faculty and students by raising the question of whether grading policies reflect objective academic merit or subjective agendas and power relations...
Does the family analogy actually hold enough water to merit so much of Reiter's attention? Actually, it does not. A government--no matter what kind--has responsibilities and standards far different than a family. Unless the family head in Reiter's example owned some kind of homeless shelter, of course he could choose to exclude whomever he wanted from his home. This would be true even if the shelter-seeker was well-dressed, well-groomed, and carried no infections diseases of any kind. A government, though, is different--especially our government. Save our Native American friends...
...both director and actor, Rigby robs the play of much of its natural energy. The play's biggest disappointment is his portrayal of Lord Byron. Shea's Bysshe quivers in his presence like a nervous schoolboy, but Byron as Rigby plays him doesn't seem to merit this idolatry. He appears middle-aged and harmless, although the poet was only 28 at the time. It is hard to imagine him climbing drainpipes after rich young heiresses and sleeping his way across Europe...