Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even Celler was satisfied by that. He finally asked what Bobby thought about the possibility of placing a limitation of $500,000 gross annual revenue, dividing public-accommodations operators who would come under the new law from those who would not. Bobby said he saw "a good deal of merit" in that approach. "We'd be willing to work something out," he said...
...conversation was hardly memorable, except that he worried aloud and a lot about radicals and leftists. When he went home, the U.S. Government presented him with the customary Legion of Merit for his "furtherance of amicable relationships between the Royal Swedish Air Force and the U.S. Air Force...
...every person who is under suspicion. We need more proof in a democratic society before we can take action." It sounded like a lame excuse to Liberals and Conservatives, who demanded a parliamentary investigation. Meanwhile, always the gentleman, Wennerstrom reportedly asked his attorney to send back his Legion of Merit, calmly faced a probable life sentence for "gross espionage...
...could scarcely find work enough to sustain him in Venice and had to rely on lesser commissions in the provinces. The Florentine art historian, Giorgio Vasari, erroneously considered Carpaccio a mediocre follower of Giovanni Bellini, and that judgment stood until the 18th century, when critics began to see some merit in his sense of fantasy. But the rise of neoclassicism, which abhorred fantasy, cast him into limbo again, and it was not until Ruskin that he found a new champion. His output had been small compared with that of his contemporaries, and his best work has rarely been brought together...
...backslapping was noticeable, the kind C. P. Snow had in mind in The Affair when he wrote, "Cambridge dons are not distinguished men. They are just men who confer distinctions upon one another." Yet most honorary degrees are the well-earned accolades of an open society to men of merit. Noteworthy last week...