Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role of junior partner, it was a junior partner with a mind of its own. The bold new defense policy outlined by Defense Minister Duncan Sandys was realistically geared to Britain's economic capabilities and imaginatively adjusted to 20th century weapons and technology. It had the added political merit of promising to end conscription in 1960, the year the Tories must face the voters in a general election...
...Sunday afternoon he played works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Gross performed with breadth of conception; he plays in continuous wholes, in entire pieces, rather than in contiguous notes and phrases. This is an elusive quality, more to be felt than analyzed, but it is a considerable merit and without it music cannot have true formal coherence...
...matter how diffuse the poetry may be, it is solidity itself when contrasted with the prose. Ernest Hemingway has been a bad influence on practically everybody, but his one great merit was to show that a short story should more often than not say one thing as quickly as possible...
...HIACOM's intended projects merit enthusiastic approbation, and it is to be hoped that other international organizations at Harvard, like the UN Council will try to make life easier for the three hundred foreign students arriving here next fall by including them in their activities. Of course for the HIACOM program to be successful individual students will have to help. House Committee representatives will soon be soliciting for students to participate in the Orientation week and vacation plans, and students may offer their services on their own by contacting the Committee office at PBH. Harvard should respond to this effort...
...sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit badges to be won for his parents' sake, is awed by such gestures. When Josh meets Miri, he is similarly drawn to her as an exotic, only to find that she is simpler and more straightforward than most American girls. The trio's relationship comes to a head when...