Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After post-graduate work under Professor Felix L. Frankfurter, Hart became law clerk to Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court. Except for brief periods of government service, for which he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit, Hart's career centered on the Harvard Law School...
Convinced of the program's merit, the government recently decreed that Rondónists will be given preference in hiring for federal jobs in the interior. The students approve too: 15,000 applied for the 4,500 places this year, and one-fifth of the 1969 crew has signed up to return next year. Beyond its practical effects on the country's interior, Projeto Rondón is also reconciling many Brazilian students with their government, despite its dictatorial tendencies. For one thing, both sides now have a common purpose that rises above political passions. For another...
Unfortunately, Volpe precluded any rational argument about the SSTs' merit by the terms in which he stated his case. America need to build a big, bumbling jet, he said, because the Russians and the French are building them. "The United States cannot afford to be a third-rate power in this kind of project." In pragmatic economic terms, the international-competition analysis suggests that the U.S. should quit the SST race. Since the French and Russians are at least two years ahead of the American SST pace, the tardy U.S. model would probably find few buyers in the international market...
THAT IS THE first goal of the warm-ups. The second is to build up energy among the cast. "This play," Cooper told his actors at a rehearsal last week, "isn't going to make it on literary merit. It isn't going to make in on plot line. If it makes it, it will be because we're sustaining it on our own energy...
...savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very few heroes these days...