Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial integration. In Winston-Salem, Western Electric has hired Negro machinists. In Charlotte, Douglas Aircraft employs Negro engineers and draftsmen. In Greensboro, where Burlington Industries (textiles) recently took on a Negro chemist, a survey of 402 firms showed that 53 intend to hire strictly on the basis of merit, regardless of race; another 114 said they will hire on merit alone for some jobs. For the Deep South this represents progress. Said one industrialist: "No, I do not have an integrated plant. But check me in a year-the answer may be different then...
...American novel before 1890, and Wilbur's Poe course, should be resurrected. There should be at least one full course in the modern American novel. There could easily be a course in just the American novels written between the two world wars. American short stories and American drama both merit their own courses...
...Brooms. For all its blatant oversimplification, The Ugly American (a title that seeks to go beyond and below Graham Greene's The Quiet American) has the great merit of drawing the reader into a vital subject rarely treated by fiction. And this Book of the Month Club selection does illustrate the fact that no nation in history has ever faced the problems the U.S. encounters. Like proconsuls of General Napier's type, U.S. officials are held responsible for the welfare of millions, are expected to attend to their wants and hopes, from plumbing to higher education. But, unlike...
...novel's first-person narrator, Ray Smith, is 1) a poet, 2) a coast-to-coast freight-hopping, hitchhiking bum, and 3) a species of religious nut who visualizes himself "wandering the world ... in order to turn the wheel of the True Meaning, or Dharma, and gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise." He is a bug on prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world...
Stirring the Young. Bedecked with the Nobel prize, the Order of Merit, the Legion of Honor and sixteen honorary degrees, Eliot next month will join France's small but select Academic Septentrionelle and take a seat left vacant since the death of Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest...