Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches us to distinguish a reasoned argument of artifice and greed from one of true merit...
...observed, the major departments make these appointments simply on the basis of their graduate students' financial needs. Reflecting on the University policy for hiring graduate students, May drily commented: "One is reminded of Melbourne's remark about the Order of the Garter--that there is no damned nonsense about merit...
...system installed last May at the Manhattan headquarters of the Girl Scouts of America has officials earning their merit badges just figuring out how the computer phones work. Says Mary Burke, business operations director of the Girl Scouts: "You've got to play with the phones for about two weeks to get the hang of them. Some of the lines don't always work as effectively as they should in the beginning...
...past (as far as painting and sculpture are concerned) in a common elephants' graveyard. So one is left with the individual talent, the single work. Diversity is all; and if this cooling-off has deprived the art world of its former urgency, at least it has the merit of reality. The only people who still feel nostalgic for the days of movements are dealers; the historical handle made paintings easier to shift...
...into the arts curriculum at Harvard. Music 180 is now over-subscribed and diluted by lesser musicians who have no recourse. Kirchner has pleaded with the department and administrators to hire at least one additional composer to the music faculty, but here again arises the question of assessing the merit of teachers and the newer problem of a severly limited University budget. Humanities professors fear a drain of funds from their departments to the arts; the arts faculty fear a further channeling of money to performance classes, away from their scholarly, critiquing courses. The performing arts always lose...