Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the new season footlight-dragging along, playgoers' choices are largely limited to several holdovers of merit. A Man for All Seasons might have taken its theme from Shakespeare's "Every subject's duty is the King's but every subject's soul is his own." Torn between duty and conscience is Sir Thomas More, played by Emlyn Williams. There is fresh comedy in the conformist cry for nonconformity as raised by A Thousand Clowns. As a nonworking anti-square, Jason Robards Jr. is supported by a prize cast of plodballs. Jean Kerr...
...have taken a representative election poll of eleven Harvard students and Faculty members from all walks of life and come up with results so astounding as to merit publication in these columns...
...first two of these findings are so puzzling as to merit further analysis. On the face of it, the hatred for Teddy seems inexplicable. There are certainly crookeder, uglier, and less personable politicians than Teddy Kennedy. There are certainly those who are less intelligent and more poorly educated and informed. Yet of all the candidates he incurs the wrath of Harvard...
...most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
Boon v. Boondoggles. The two disagree on everything else. Breeding seems unworried about Cuba ("I go along pretty strongly with what President Kennedy's doing about Cuba"); Dole argues for action ("I think a naval blockade has possible merit, and I'm concerned about any thought that the Monroe Doctrine may be outmoded"). On domestic economic issues, Breeding has voted with the Kennedy Administration. Dole has not. Says he: "No Kennedy leader has mentioned the possibility of reducing a program, any federal program. They want a $900 million boondoggle on public works. They've added...