Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair. One story, Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively moving and moon-haunted. For the rest, One Arm reads too frequently as if the chapters of Psychopathia Sexualis had been...
...appearance. Currently his starting salary runs from $250 to $400 a month. This is less than he could command in a private position with an industrial enterprise. But the starting salary should not be at primary importance; he must look sheet to where he will be ten years hones. Merit is recognized and advancement, is almost certain...
...jovial view of Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter into Odets' idea of the Flood as a human parable...
David M. Dorson '56 and Edward Mr. Strasser '56, co-chairmen of the drive, explained last night that last year's criticisms of Salzburg, which caused it to be cut from the list, "were invalid or lacked sufficient merit to warrant our not recommending...
Radcliffe will formally mark its seventy-fifth anniversary this afternoon when the College awards citations of merit to eight distinguished alumnae. Ceremonies will start at 2:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Radcliffe does not give honorary degrees...