Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation polarizes at two extremes: private industry either lavishes millions on its monuments or builds stark architecture of an economic functionality lacking social or aesthetic merit. The practice of monument construction is best expressed in the new Federal Reserve Building, by Hugh Stubbins and Associates, which follows the Hancock and Prudential buildings in its indulgence in the grander, sleeker, more-conspicuous-and-powerful syndrome. "You don't seem to understand," one corporate executive notes. "We make money." For such companies cost is no object...
...play of middling merit fills an evening; the play of lasting merit fills a void. Subtly, or drastically, high drama alters our perception of existence. In this decade, up to now, the most promising young dramatists all seem to fall within the confines of middling merit. What knits some recent playwrights together more excitingly than their works is a sense that they are stage animals prowling their natural and necessary habitat. One such prowling indigene is Albert Innaurato...
Both of your editorials of March 22 merit a response. Your first editorial claims that there is "no evidence of outside interest" in the recent Katangan invasion of Zaire. But the simple and incontrovertible fact is that Angola is supplying the Katangans with arms. What then is wrong with giving military aid to Zaire? Zaire, while not a perfect democracy, is miles ahead of Angola. Why doesn't The Crimson comment on the 10,000 Cuban troops remaining in Angola? We agree that America should not forget the lessons of Vietnam. But there is a big difference between sending arms...
...didn't star in any of their art films, did you?" the pathologically jealous French instructor says, interrogating his coy step-daughter. That's the school of "art" to which Heart Throbs belongs: the sort you might judge to be of considerable artistic merit--unless someone you knew were mixed up in them...
...completely graphic bestiality. A cartoon short called "Desire Pie," meanwhile, filmed by a group from the Carpenter Center, looks like an animated version of the amateurish depictions of coitus in bathroom stalls around campus (with a few touches reminiscent of The Yellow Submarine thrown in--for artistic merit...