Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though raised under Naziism, young Nickel satisfied the Military Government people that he was no Nazi. Explained Hermann solemnly: "The merit is not my own. I owe my understanding to my parents. If I had had Nazi parents, I would have been a Nazi...
...weeks, teachers and parents jammed the hearings-scolding, threatening, protesting. Some proposed establishing remedial schools. Some demanded special teachers to take care of dullards. Almost all insisted on merit promotions. Cried one principal: "Teachers with backward children in their classes are simply custodial agents for morons, until they can be passed on to a higher grade...
...least does not try to show a great panorama of society, and fail. Everything investigated is seen thoroughly, in perfect focus, but there are definite limitations. Only half a dozen characters are seen, representing very little of society, though a good range of neuroticism. But the chief merit of the book lies in the fact that Sartre has put his story ahead of his theme, and whatever abstract ideas of Existentialism he has expressed, he has converted them into the concrete form of dramatic situation. Perhaps a lot can be learned about the new French philosophy from the novel...
...Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, an eminent churchman, the Rev. Jeremy Collier inveighed against the hero of Love for Love: "He is a prodigal debauchee, unnatural, and profane, obscene, saucy, and undutiful; and yet this libertine is crowned for the man of merit, has his wishes thrown into his lap. . . ." Congreve replied nervously, and not altogether convincingly, that he was doing a useful social work in painting "the vices and follies of human kind...
...Poling has been at various times author (20 books published, including five novels), pastor, radiorator, lecturer, world traveler, columnist and editor. In 1921 he broke his back in an automobile accident, but that scarcely slowed him down. Last month he was awarded the War Department's Medal for Merit for his morale-building efforts in World...