Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heat of summer withers marginal plays, and the survivors are either of proven merit or exceptional freshness. Best of the survivors...
Sculptor Ibram Lassaw believes that the merit of the Hamptons for artists is just that they can find a studio here." Painter Lucia Wilcox, who used to turn fish thrown away by local fishermen into bouillabaisse for Max Ernst, Jean Hélion and Fernand Léger when they were war refugees in the Hamptons, says, "I am crazy about the sky. It's like Paris." City Landscapist Jane Wilson likes the change. Moreover, Art lives comfortably with Wealth. Adolph Gottlieb is a neighbor to one of the U.S.'s richest in-surancemen. He reports that...
...night there is further buildup. No policeman patrols alone; the corners of 125th Street merit groups of three, and pairs and trios walk the major thoroughfares. For the small side streets and in areas with high concentrations of taverns patrols of five and six walk the beat...
Some may argue that the Constitution leaves the preservation of peace and good order exclusively to the states, said the law professors. But the argument has been without merit since 1879, when the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Government's power to command obedience to its laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional...
...literary device. The people of the book are joyless, hateless, empty of good or evil, fleshy machines that transmit at the audible level the prattle of Babbittry and, octaves above, the silent scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless and hateless, empty of merit and of error, painfully boring. And it is obvious that this is intentional. Farrell's setting is St. Louis in the 1920s, and his method is to make his readers suffer at the same pace as his characters...