Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make the world safe for experimental literature. Supporting this seven-eighths hypocrisy, Girodias points loftily to a one-eighth truth: both Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man are works of high merit, and both were published first by Olympia...
...detail life's miseries and ironies as movingly as Moravia did in Two Adolescents (1950), Conjugal Love (1957), or Two Women (1958). But in Empty Canvas, as all too often in recent works, Moravia has directed his skilled and serious attention to characters and situations that do not merit serious attention...
...from, God forbid, Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
...Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses. In these two wars, the 32nd suffered 20,500 casualties...
...objectives of the current Program for Harvard Medicine is "To preserve for the Faculty of Medicine 'freedom of decision' as to the most promising areas for the advancement of medical knowledge." The omnipresent possibility of restriction of academic freedom was cause enough for a $58 million drive; it should merit more careful examination by a report on "Harvard and the Federal Government...