Word: merrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, that education can provide answers to the problems of rising expectation. He will be on sabbatical next semester and hopes to use the time to straighten out his thoughts on how schooling can prepare black children, particularly in the States, for the rude awakening graduation provides. In April, Merril Jackson of Michigan State University's Center for Conflict Resolution is coming to Harvard to work with Curle...
Maria who? Today, considerably slimmed down and grown sharp, she is known as Maria Callas. Other Amateur Hour alumni and their years are Merril Miller, '36 (now the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), and a member of the Hoboken Four, Frank Sinatra, '35. Other graduates include Teresa Brewer, Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs, Frank Fontaine, Bert Parks and the Met's Regina Resnik...
...ANNUAL OF THE YEAR'S BEST S-F (399 pp.)-Edited by Judith Merril -Simon & Schuster...
Alas for science fiction! Science has caught up with it, or it has caught up with science. Except for low-grade space opera, there is not much of the good old stuff around. To fill her seventh annual S-F anthology. Judith Merril scraped the bottom of the barrel, and, by her own admission, few of the 32 short stories, poems, cartoons and other oddments that she assembled are science fiction. James Blish, a drug industry public relations man, writes In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell...
Kids still slaughter each other with ray guns; teen-agers still dream about blasting off. What, then, has happened to science fiction? Miss Merril suggests that it has been absorbed into the main body of literature. "Thus, much of the best science fiction published today is under wrappers and headings that either angrily disclaim the 'science-fiction' label, or ignore it completely...