Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private builders are serving the city better. This week New York's Municipal Art Society awarded a Certificate of Merit to a quasi-public building of rare distinction: Architect Marcel Breuer's rugged, jutting complex of dormitory, classroom and lecture hall for the campus of New York University at University Heights...
...that the two U.S. carriers (Pan Am and TWA) had not opposed the fare raise and that the CAB had not intervened until two weeks before it was to take effect. This is what brought on the charges of U.S. bad faith. Though clumsily handled, the U.S. case had merit in its main point that when many of the new jets are flying the Atlantic half empty, the way to attract more passengers is to lower fares...
...these earliest buildings, the real masterpieces are Massachusetts Hall, Holden Chapel, and Apthorp House. Massachusetts Hall, one of Harvard's truly prize possessions, is the oldest College building, constructed in 1720. Few University buildings of equal merit have been erected since. The classic simplicity of its Georgian lines, the excellence of its brickwork, and its immaculate proportions are impossible to better. Holden Chapel, designed by an unknown Englishman, is a very beautiful little building, which manages to look modest and aristocratic at the same time. Its symetrical simplicity is much like that of Massachusetts Hall, the only flourish being...
...however, it has not been necessary to express these attitudes toward women in explicit terms, because there are moral arguments available-arguments which have the disadvantages of prudery, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, but the overwhelming merit of evading the issue. It seems quite unlikely that, if parietal rules did not exist, twentieth-century Harvard would feel a moral need to impose them, but the rules are there and very convenient for the Masters...
...responsibility, living with the results. It has become a rather important international institution. I suppose TIME holds the record for having been banned from more countries than any other publication of general circulation. I would suppose that in these past 40 years, that is something of a medal of merit. Of course, the thin skin of the U.S. Government, toughened by the First Amendment, has never allowed that question to arise in this country. But on more than one occasion, we in the Department of State have been asked by diplomats from this or that country, was TIME speaking...