Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of Greenwood's picture, documentary value far outweighs esthetic merit. In others, such as Feke's portrait of Clergyman Hiscox, the balance is kept even. But whether viewed primarily as art or as history, the colonial canvases make an eye-opening display...
Died. Walter de la Mare, 83, famed myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child...
They also vary considerably in merit. The best job is young Actor T. C. Jones's female impersonations, especially of Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper...
...paired off two years ago, Jacques' love letters to Denise were steeped in philosophical maundering. Like his existentialist masters, Jacques believed that thought must be carried into action. It was all very well, he suggested, for Denise to say she loved him, but what about the proof? "To merit my love," said young Jacques, "you must go from suffering to suffering." He cited a passage in D'Annunzio in which a jealous husband kills the child his wife has had by another man, and asked, "Now, isn't that beautiful?" Denise agreed, "but," she said, "I haven...
...Merit, on Broadway, came in most sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...