Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host, dancer, master of ceremonies, announcer, narrator, panelist or any person who essentially plays himself." Of the westerns, current giants of the ratings, only top-rated Gunsmoke copped an Emmy ("the best dramatic series with continuing characters"). Other winners, as often attesting popularity or superior politicking as saluting true merit...
...preamble to Signet's constitution states one further purpose for the Society, that election to membership be a recognition of merit. One of the founders expressed his hope that people would be elected on the basis of real ability rather than because of "good fellowship," and that Signet would not adopt the false standard of admission originally criticized in other clubs...
Real ability still often must take second place to good fellowship. The difficulty lies with the fact that there is no common agreement concerning in what merit consists. Academic standing is not always consulted, and often the glib conversationalist will be elected over the serious scholar. Many members are more concerned with keeping certain people out than with who gets in. The election meetings are charged with a snobbery and viciousness that many Final Clubs would be hard pressed to emulate...
Toleration has no merit when it arises from mere unconcern. Toleration is a virtue only when it expresses the mutual respect of persons with diverse and strong convictions concerning the place of man in the universe. When one does not care, peace is as easy as it is meaningless. Perhaps this is the deeper question: does one care whether religious beliefs are true...
Aside from the fine acting of Albert Prejean, the movie's great merit is two very good songs. Anyone who is captivated by these songs cannot help but like the whole show, since one of them, Sous Les Toits de Paris, is sung about fifteen times. Furthermore, Roofs cured this reviewer of a nasty hangover, and presumably will do the same for the general public...