Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play the notes at all my rest assured that not he, but the composer will be reviewed; should this become the style of the New York critics, much will have been done to eliminate stage-fright. Note, however, that our happy performer must be professional in order to merit this diversion of attention; only student performers have faults in the CRIMSON...
...murals. These paintings, "monstrous both in size and content," "a mass of jumbled color and symbol," "drawn by a Mexican" whose name Mr. Savadove did not think important enough to furnish, are counted among the greatest murals the of century. However distasteful Jose Orozco's politics may be, the merit of his art has long been acknowledged...
...India, President Harry Truman nominated Chester Bowles, ex-partner in the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, wartime OPA administrator, ex-Governor of Connecticut. Left-wing Democrats have long argued that U.S.-Indian relations suffer because the U.S. does not show India its liberal face. If there is any merit in this argument, Liberal Bowles should be able to improve matters. The chief obstacle to U.S.-Indian friendship is Prime Minister Nehru's attitude of publicly distrusting the motives of all governments except his own. Neither Bowles nor any other U.S. ambassador could be expected to fix that...
...Streetcar Named Desire (Charles K. Feldman; Warner) is an impressive adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning 1947 Broadway hit about a fate-battered Southern belle in the last agonies of degradation. Though the movie has its flaws, it can claim a merit rare in Hollywood films: it is a grownup, gloves-off drama of real human beings...
...last review, got some final honors for 34 years of service. Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to Kenney's Distinguished Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall came a personal letter. Said Airman Kenney, World War I combat pilot and one of the last of his breed on active duty in the Air Force...