Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civilization & Poetry. Today, at 61, Mr. Eliot is secure and honored in his high place as one of the foremost men of English letters. In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and the Order of Merit (one of the highest British orders, limited to 24 members). In his critical essays, he has rendered Olympian judgments. Fellow critics swarm about Critic Eliot like an army of Lilliputians, trying to tie him down to some systematic "school"; when he stirs to reverse one of his previous unfavorable decisions (as he has been known to do, notably in the case...
...inspired plot to force unwanted employees on unwilling employers, an attempt to legislate what only persuasion and education could achieve. With the South in full control, there was not much chance for the FEPC counterargument: that FEPC did not deny an employer's right to hire & fire on merit, that it specified only that religion or race could not be a factor in employment, that local FEPC plans had already proved workable in states like New York...
...answer to every director's dream--a set which echoes the mood of the play and which, through imaginative lighting, molds itself to the rising action. Elia Kazan's skilled direction has shaped the production into a meaningful, clear-cut picture of desire and despair. A play of the merit of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" is deserving of all the thought and skill that has been lavished...
Decisions on Merit...
...Council can direct, clear-cut results be seen. The adjectives "useful" and "valuable" seem like little recompense for the amount of work put into making broader, more ambitious suggestions. Yet little more can be expected. The results of the Council's recommendations must depend solely on their merit. No more can or should be asked for than that the recommendations of the Council receive careful consideration...