Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason for the TV version's popularity, it did not necessarily have much to do with artistic merit. Leading TV critics had, at best, serious reservations about the series, and many panned it outright. The Chicago Sun-Times' William Granger, complaining of "puerile" writing and "caricatures," described Roots as "so transparently bad at times that I was filled with embarrassment." TIME'S own critic, Richard Schickel, labeled the TV production as "Mandingo for middlebrows." He wrote that Roots offered "almost no new insights, factual or emotional," about slavery; instead, there was "a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions...
Fourth, the median grade may not adequately reflect the academic quality of a course. A high median grade does not necessarily mean that a course was very easy and thus of little academic merit. It could be that the course was taken by many students who had a strong background in the field, or that a professor was succesful in having many students master the material...
...handsomest man in all England. The aunts thereupon pick up their skirts and march up to the old duke to present him with an inescapable fact: they have an eligible niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew a quick lesson in marital arithmetic. When Palliser demurs that he and Glencora do not love each other, the duke, with impeccable Victorian logic, retorts: "Love? We are talking about marriage...
Hawes has bigger ideas for Mem Hall, built in the 1890s to commemorate Harvard students and alumni killed in the Civil War. Although he said the task force's recommendation to transform the building into a coffee house or an old style beer hall has merit, he would prefer to see the building converted into a campus center for the arts...
DESPITE THESE self-imposed restrictions, during twenty years the company has increased its sales from $625,000 to $5 million in a highly competitive market. This commercial success does not prove worker ownership superior to stockholder-owned companies: conventional firms have had equal or greater successes. The merit of the Commonwealth idea lies in its accomplishment of human objectives which ordinarily are given second place or ignored entirely in commercial practice...