Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They have journalistic and literary merit if only because people are interested in how Hemingway wrote," says Atlantic's Executive Editor Robert Manning. A devoted Hemingway fan, Manning met Papa while interviewing him for a TIME cover. The two became friends and exchanged letters. After Hemingway's death Manning visited his widow, Mary Welsh, to ask if he might see any unpublished manuscripts. He found a pair of love poems written by Papa to Mary during World War II and persuaded Mary to let the Atlantic run them...
...most demonic sins, for Dante, are the sins of the spirit. Hence Brunetto Latini, since he embodies a sensual sin, does not merit punishment so severe as that meted out to the spiritually corrupt...
...There may have been some practices not in line with acceptable accounting procedures," said Abernathy. "But I'm not suggesting that there has been any dishonesty. If there have been mistakes, they have been mistakes of the head and not of the heart." With more emotion than legal merit, Abernathy insisted that what Reese had done with DCVL funds was "none of the business" of the Dallas County grand jury...
...such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it has one peculiar and overriding merit. In the contorted, possessed character of Boy Gravely, Author Dornfeld has created a marvelously perceptive delineation of the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...attention of all these drivers, who pass hundreds of gas stations on their travels, the oil companies are pumping more money into advertising that stresses the individuality and merit of their product. Nearly every brand now touts an additive-TCP, Petrox, Tri-tane, Boron-and a variety of octanes to suit different cars. Sunoco, for example, offers eight different octanes for practically every make and type of car. While the additives do improve auto performance and reduce maintenance problems, Elaine Yarring-ton, American Oil's marketing development manager, admits: "They do not ultimately result in any significant difference between...