Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the establishment of the Regional Studies Program at Harvard in 1946, the concept of a geographically defined academic discipline has become increasingly well received. The value of utilizing many fields of study to examine a large-scale culture seems to have much merit to those for whom the program is designed: people entering public service, business, journalism, and the teaching profession...
...recording its great merit is that it keeps perfect balance; most choral records sound as if there were twenty sopranos for every bass. However, the transfer from tape to disk was sloppily done. The review copy had serious pre-echo, intemittent hiss, and a series of clicks which sounded like liconic castanets. Furthermore, neither record has any lead-in grooves; so that the first moments of each side are lost unless the needle is put on with a loving and very steady hand...
...surpassing merit of the record is the balance of the selections between the familiar and the obscure. Adeste Fidelis is included, but so is a very simple and fine carol by one John Billings, called A Virgin Unspotted. The unhackneyed pieces, together with the unhackneyed approach, remove the record from the realm of Christmas tree baubles and Muzak in Filene's basement...
...only apparent reason for maintaining the Council's existence is the fact that it assigns people to write reports for it. Some of these have been well planned and written, and though not based on scientific polls, have had merit. Too often, however, the reports turn into the opinions of the three or four men who are writing them, and little attempt is made to divine general undergraduate opinion. Reports could be much better executed under a special student committee chosen by the Masters and Senior Tutors. This committee would include at least one person who has taken a survey...
With this volume, Wilson's game of intellectual hooky is certainly up. The book is a sequence of unblinking non sequiturs, half-fashioned logic and firm disregard for the English language. The merit of The Outsider was that it brought fresh insight to such diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...