Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, Pravda named nine critics who had made the mistake of criticizing the kind of calendar-art-heavily realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently...
...masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...
...Badge of Merit...
...Rubinstein summed it up: "Had Furtwangler been firm in his democratic convictions he would have left Germany . . . Mr. Furtwangler chose to stay and chose to perform, believing he would be on the side of the victors . . . Now he wants to earn American dollars and American prestige. He does not merit either...
Opinion at Harvard has been split on federal scholarship aid. President Conant in his book, "Education in a Divided World," recommended giving higher education to men of merit with limited funds, while Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, has stated several times that the supply of college men will soon exceed the demand...