Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the faculty of 165, he cut away deadwood, hired bright mainlanders, introduced a merit system of raises that could bring a teacher with a doctorate $11,078 a year. Over a three-year period Bushong insists that teachers spend one summer in a campus workshop and one summer taking college credit courses before getting the third summer...
Lease-Back Loophole. Whatever their personal feelings, lawyers concede that Mrs. Murray's tax-exemption suit is not without merit. She argues that such exemption forces her to pay higher taxes and support churches-in direct conflict with the First Amendment's prohibition against laws "respecting an establishment of religion." All 50 states, including Maryland, repeat this prohibition in some form in their own constitutions. Yet 33 state constitutions also make church property taxfree. All other states accomplish the same end under other statutes...
Although journalists get most of the Pulitzers, awards are also made in the field of arts and letters. But on this far larger hunting ground, the judges have had chronic trouble finding, or at least recognizing, enough merit to cover all seven divisions.* The fiction prize has been skipped seven times in 48 years, the drama award eight times. This year the Pulitzer jurors withheld awards in music, drama and fiction...
Under those headings, the jurors sent not a single nomination to the University of Columbia board of trustees, which picks the winners. Some of the other arts-and-letters awards, though, testified to a painstaking search for merit. The history award went to Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, a book that was rejected by two publishers before Author Sumner Chilton Powell found a printer. Powell fielded his prize with special gratitude. He hoped, he said, that it might help him on his newest project: finding a suitable...
Jazzmen have done little to reverse these unhappy trends. Many musicians seem to feel that malaise in the audience proves the merit of the music; when the squares start enjoying themselves, something has gone wrong. But the shrinking of the jazz scene has already badly damaged the atmosphere for making music. There is so little sense of com munity among the 1,000 or so jazzmen in New York that a genuine after-hours jam session is as rare and astonishing as a triple play. And now, with Birdland gone, where's home...