Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promote pretty much on merit; that's what attracts and excites the youth." The promise of "promotion for merit" is precisely the lure that brought millions of immigrants to America and drove them and their progeny to settle this giant continent in record time...
...Moynihan's plan of giving allowances to families with children, such as exists in Canada, has merit. New York State allows $1,500 a year for raising a foster child. Consider how inadequate is the $600 a year per child federal income tax exemption...
...aristocratic dueling code, which served to maintain a social hierarchy that became enshrouded in trappings of honor and death. It is true of the city gang, which functions as a rough and ready community but also includes a mystique in which violence is equated with courage and crime with merit. It is, finally, true of revolutionary ideology, which combines the brutal but often practical belief that only violence can pull down the existing order through a crude poetry about the purifying properties of blood and fire. "I believe in the cutting off of heads," proclaimed Marat during the French Revolution...
Fortunately for Adams, it was too late. The auctioneer's hammer had al ready fallen, and the painting was delivered in due time to its new owner. "I was confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some...
Nabokov's achievements fully merit a major critical study. Andrew Field, a New Jersey-born critic now teaching Russian literature at the University of Queensland in Australia, microscopically analyzes all 15 Nabokov novels and the major short stories and poems, and traces Nabokov's abiding themes-love, death, exile and memory-through his Russian and American books...