Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largely responsible for the tremendous power of the opera are the carefully timed and executed lighting effects lending added merit to a production already outstanding...
Propaganda or no, the stories and poems retain literary merit, even in translation. The poetic imagery is freshly original and fragments of the descriptive prose are reminiscent of the best in earlier writings. And it is finally in demonstrating that government inspiration and the sound of guns need not throttio the development of a true literary tradition that the issue gains its main interest. We should like, after all, to say that this respect for common culture optimizes the distinction between our fascist too and our communist ally...
...treats with a ridicule heavily touched with fondness. Darrow's favorite subjects include the laughable aspects of human underwear, the drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take...
...accuracy, takes the steel's place. After the coil is welded, an electric current burns up the spaghetti core in a flash. For this ingenious idea, which cuts filament-assembly time from five minutes to one, Westinghouse Engineer William A. Hayes got a WPB award of Individual Production Merit...
...another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings the Kashmiri Song, the Seguidilla...