Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Lansing, Mich.'s The Paper was started last December by Michael Kindman, 21, a Michigan State senior and Merit Scholar majoring in history. It is Kindman's way of striking back at "the bureaucratic minds" that run the uni versity. Kindman says he has 3,000 subscribers for his weekly...
Nine-fourteenths of these songs have no merit, gain no successes by any means. The "hit" cuts released on 45's represent the worst of the garbage. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" enumerates ad nauseam all the situations in which "They'll Stone you..." and its triple rimes get maddeningly predictable, e.g. "when you're walking on the street," and "when you're trying to keep your feet." "I Want You," after two passable stanzas, degenerates into similar rime-tagging; it also suffers from the tedious triple chorus of its title. One half-decent stanza late in the song suggests...
...decision to throw the case out of court must be interpreted as a political move to avoid a condemnation of apartheid. The final decision attained what Lewis called "a level of sophistication even the U.S. Supreme Court has failed to reach." Ethiopia and Liberia had legal standing enough to merit a ruling...
...Pace of Change. The conflict between the hierarchy and its flock is a tragic but perhaps inevitable clash between generations in which merit can be found on both sides. As one sympathetic Spanish layman put it, "The bishops fear a return to the chaos of the past, and with good reason. Yet the younger clergy, which is not burdened with Spanish history, looks to the future." Both aging prelates and youthful priests agree that a transformation of the church in the light of the council is inevitable; what divides them is the pace of such change...
STRATFORD, Conn.--It is not often that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...