Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Washington planners feel that this theory had merit while the U.S. enjoyed its nuclear monopoly, but cannot be applied to a period of approximate nuclear parity between East and West. In such a situation, according to dominant Pentagon thinking, the U.S. must have a maximum number of "options" allowing it to hit back on any level appropriate to any attack. If the Russians were to stage various "incidents" at Berlin or even tried to seize some West German territory with conventional force, argue American strategists, the U.S. should not be forced to choose between doing nothing or starting...
Political or charitable contributions should remain an individual's decision. But the Quincy House vote in no way obscures the merit of giving fiscal aid to an individual who has made a much more difficult decision...
...then continued to say--absolutely ignoring the mass of evidence from The American Scene itself which I use to support my view of this book--that its real merit is the sheer experience of James's sensitivity. "Reading the book is like wading into a great pool of consciousness...
Tangle of Doom. The fuss began over a German performance of Phaedra, Graham's "phantasmagoria of desire" (TIME, March 16, 1962), that Congresswoman Edna Kelly from Brooklyn found "distasteful." One morning's hearing in Washington was enough to establish Graham's artistic merit, and she dismissed the affair with a sharp coup de grâce: "I feel as if I had been pawed by dirty hands." But the pawing paid off. Despite a repertory program that included two newer and better works last week, it was Phaedra that drew the loudest cheers...
...Crimson must be rated favorites on the merit of a victory over the Indians last year as freshmen, but unless the line play equals the standard set in the non-conference games, the Big Green may walk off with the victory...