Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force and Army R.O.T.C. units will parade starting at 3:15 p.m. tomorrow on the Lacrosse Field in the major spring parade for both units. Lieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger, Commanding General, First Army, will review the cadets and assist in passing out individual awards for military efficiency and merit...
...Eisenhower, who usually wears only three ribbons on his jacket (Army & Navy, D.S.M.s and the Legion of Merit), holds 43 foreign decorations, e.g., Britain's Order of Merit (limited to 24 living holders), France's Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Russia's topflight Order of Suvorov, Poland's Cross of Grunwald, Tunisia's Grand Cordon of Nishan Iftikar. Last week France awarded him the Médaille Militaire, the highest French military decoration...
...Nation, they still have every right to do so. What is so disturbing, then, is not that they rattle their placards and protest, but that their complaints have such final and immediate effects. The power of such pressure groups has reached a level where no movie of any merit is safe from accusations of bigotry, hurled by well-intentioned but shortsighted organizations. This has come about simply because the majority of moviegoers--the people who are concerned only with an evening of good entertainment--has submitted to the minority without a murmur...
...stories, on subjects which seem to be fashionable these days--the decaying South and oppressed Africa--have considerable merit. The first, Told About One Spring, by Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity...
...weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...