Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some reason, the Boston Summer Playhouse has chosen a large percentage of highly sophisticated comedies for the season, but so far they have not given evidence that their actors have sufficient flair for high comedy to merit the choice. Humor certainly makes for "light summer fare," but somehow comedy without flair is more difficult to swallow than drama without guts...
...deadline neared, industry's Cooper summed up management's case in calm, assured tones, basing it heavily on the state of the economy and management's "complete conviction as to the merit in the public interest." In reply, Dave McDonald attacked management's position as "a mock crusade against inflation," called its whole stance one of "strikebrinkism." Said McDonald: "They say to the union: Surrender unconditionally, and then we will dictate our terms for your acceptance...
...choosing the first show, the powers-that-be naturally wanted a festive work of acknowledged merit. They settled on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and engaged Herbert Berghof as director. The work is too well known to warrant much comment. It is, of course, the last and subtlest of the Bard's true comedies--a study of (1) unrequited lovers (in which, by rare exception, young love is not opposed by an elder generation), and of (2) poseurs. Every member of the personae is a persona in the old Latin sense of a mask-wearer; and the play...
...Lehmbruck, Matisse, Lachaise, Epstein and, of all people, Paul Gauguin. These works alone are worthy of a trip to the Busch's isolated headquarters on Kirkland and Divinity Avenues. Generally, however, the rather uneven quality of the exhibition tends to ensure a quick run-through of the works which merit attention on the part of the artgoer. An inclusive exhibition of a private collection is bound to turn up some third-rate works such as the trompe-l'oeil offerings of one Aaron Shikler, to name the author of three objects among the several works which I found...
...Paul Rudolph, 40, Harvard-trained and now chairman of Yale's architecture department, got an A.I.A. merit award with his home for F. A. Deering (opposite). In a sharp break with the low, rambling Florida beach house. Architect Rudolph erected a building of surprising elegance and solidity on Casey Key, a sand strip near Sarasota, Fla. A shoebox on the exterior, the house is full of surprises inside. Ten rooms are ranged over five different levels like so many stage elevations. Ceilings vary from 16 ft. 6 in. (for the broad beach porch...