Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas! who serves his country often serves A most ungrateful mistress, even thy merit Offends the Senate; with a jealous eye It views thy greatness...
...sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch the heart...
...Orleans Street Singer (Snooks Eaglin; Folkways). A blind Negro singer in selections from his standard repertory -Let Me Go Home Whiskey, St. James Infirmary. The merit of this unusual disk lies less in the polished, pop-flavored numbers (Rock Island Line) than in Eaglin's moving, soft-burred address to the blues, notably Trouble in Mind...
Everyone who so desired contributed to the show. As might be expected, there was a great deal of worthless stuff; but undeniably the show contained numerous items of great merit...
This exhibit, however, did contain a lot of junk. For example, the fields of scratches that constituted Robert Partin's "Offing" and "In the Rain" surely did not merit showing. Nor did William Tokeshi's field of dashes; Tokeshi labeled it "No Title," and small wonder. Prizes of $250 went to four works, none of which was outstanding...