Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made it crystal clear: "No one can now doubt where Lyndon Johnson stands on the issue." The Detroit News, while agreeing, speculated on the impact on Congress, concluded that "Southern opposition has been placed in a difficult position." Columnist David Lawrence, who in his time has found merit in the South's position on the race problem, interpreted Johnson's remarks as "a compromise," and in that spirit endorsed them...
...important as these questions are, they should not obscure the basic merit of offering a credit course in dramatic literature and production. This spring, the Marlowe-Shakespeare Quadricentennial project will provide men like Alfred with a chance for experimentation. Hopefully they will find a feasible plan. By offering a combination of lectures and stage work, the Loeb would bridge the unnecessary dichotomy between the dramatic and the academic. The separation of the two aids neither; their conjunction would aid both...
...abiding dislike of professionalism. Characterizing his life in the theater as a "love-hate relationship," he emphasizes that "there are aspects of the professional theater which appall me." Most simply, he decries the "big business of Broadway" which emphasizes a criterion of achievement "only incidently related to merit." And he finds the theater in "pretty dismal shape when we have to tout Albee as our leading playwright...
...Desire had no merit save the pictorial beauty created by its celebrated photography director, it would still be regarded as a fine motion picture. When Claude Renoir opens the movie with a superb painting of yellow flowers, green fields, and turquoise sea, he sets up an artistic standard that is sustained throughout the picture. White and blue-gray winters, lugubrious shots of motley interiors, and overcast hunting scenes do at least as much to develop moods as the dialogue and acting. Though masterful in its own right, Renoir's delicate camerawork also does much to control the frail and precise...
They said that 1967 had 105 Merit Scholars and 150 members eligible for Sophomore Standing, both records for a Harvard freshman class. In addition the new Yardlings had higher average College Board scores than any of their predecessors...