Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward C. Cumming '54 won the $400 Helen Choate Bell Prize for his essay "William Faulkner: Peasants and Snopeses." Honorable mention went to David M. Kalstone '54 for his paper "Henry James as Social Critic: The Final Vision." The Helen Choate Bell Prize is given "for merit in work in the field of American Literature...
...great merit of this biography by Novelist Nancy Mitford that it excels in depicting both these worlds-the brilliant, romantic showcase and the recessed secret world of power...
...unfortunate that it takes a constitutional crisis to alert conservatives to a moral issue. Conservative morality, economy-minded as it is, is not so much wrong as it is porous and shallow. Merit is figured in terms of loss or gain. So, mink coats, a legitimate political issue, is raised as a moral issue, an oblique one when compared to a basic moral issue such as the violation of a Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss...
...public sessions ended. At first there was more homework than he was able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been harmful. At first, Jenkins' questioning was based on the assumption that McCarthy's Fort Monmouth foray was a great service to the U.S., but he soon dropped that line in favor of an impartially open...
While these revisions in the organization and quota system are the major advantages of the new bill, numerous other provisions add to its merit. Especially needed are alterations in its present blunderbuss security provisions that trap innocent visitors and ship crewmen in the confusion of intricate safeguards. The bill would tighten regulations against the possible entrance of actual subversives while removing the unnecessary and complicated security checks. In addition, many passages of the McCarran Act are reworded to eliminate harsh, ambiguous, and inconsistent standards...