Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commended on your Essay "The Kennedy Legend & The Johnson Performance" [Nov. 26]. It's about time we had a true appraisal of Kennedy's "merit" and Johnson's "deeds." I do feel, however, that the press and television media are responsible for the misjudgments because of their continual praise of the Kennedy image and the Kennedy family...
...life expectancy, and the indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut back on the sentence. Later on, indulgences came to be conceived as release from some or all of the ac cumulated punishment time in Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment in or out of Purgatory due for a forgiven sin, was deemed by St. Thomas Aquinas to be sufficient to enable a soul to soar straight to heaven...
Welland's early plan to work these sophomores in with the experienced upperclassmen has resulted in four lines of approximately equal merit. Once the collegiate season starts, he will revert to three lines, though all 12 forwards will see action at some point in the juggling that the addition of five new players makes inevitable...
...Fanny's original trial, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, testified in Suffolk Superior Court that the book is of literary and historic merit. Bullitt was one of a series of professors brought into court in May, 1964 by Putnam's expert censorship lawyers. Charles I. Rembar '35 and Reuben Goodman...
Symbolic Language. Some God-minded Protestant thinkers concede that this new radical theology has considerable merit. Gordon Kaufman of the Harvard Divinity School believes that the movement is forcing other thinkers to undertake a long-overdue re-examination of the doctrine of God. And Paul Tillich, whose own writings point to a "God above God" that stands beyond the man-made deity of traditional theism, concedes: "I say yes to this movement insofar as it points to something above the symbolic language concerning God." Tillich also says no to the new theologians on the ground that they are abandoning...