Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British Museum reading room. His gleanings provided a European psychohistory before the term was coined, covering half-remembered terrors with gothic cobwebs. Stoker wrote several other romances of no particular power, but in Dracula he managed to create a classic, forever stalking his readers when their moral and rational defenses...
...turned toward me dumbly and extracted two plugs of cotton from her ears. I guess some people come better prepared than others. Albums. By the way, some Blue note re-release albums that WBUR has been featuring in the last few nights definitely merit listening to. Particularly enjoyable is some of the Lee Morgan stuff. The Trans and Chambers outs sound a little too light for me, but they are definitely needed to complete the collection...
...effectively in 1965, Kissinger has argued that would have been interpreted as support of the Athens junta-a U.S. stance for which he was already under fire. While some of his aides have conceded that Turkey violated U.S. military aid laws, Kissinger insists they are bad laws. With merit, the pro-Greece lobbyists counter that laws, good or bad, must be obeyed. Indeed, when India and Pakistan went to war, using U.S. arms, in 1965, the Johnson Administration itself suspended aid to both combatants...
...search of an Upper East Side singles bar; and if Ruby Dee's Gertrude is capable of loving either Claudius or Hamlet, it will certainly be news to them. Only Larry Gates, doubling as Polonius and the First Gravedigger, emerges from this fiasco with a modicum of merit...
...dismay of many members. One delegate said she was afraid the presence of men in the caucus would intimidate women who weren't used to dealing with men on an equal basis. Another said the resolution was "the worst thing that could have happened I here's move merit to the idea that out search for equality should include men. But women's politics puts you in an adversary position with the make establishment. How can that be reconciled. "A New York delegate claimed that made in filtration" had already begun anyway through women who were appointed to political office...