Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics may carp about the dearth of live television shows, reports the trade magazine Television Age, but so far as the general public is concerned, it could hardly care less. After sending Pulse, Inc. to pry into 1,000 TV-equipped homes, Television Age was surprised to learn that nearly 82% of televiewers never wondered whether a program was live or filmed. So many people guessed wrong about so many programs, said the magazine, "that maybe all the industry polemics regarding live and film is pretty much a waste of time and breath...
...AGE OF ROOSEVELT-VOLUME II: THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL (669 pp.) -Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.-Houghton Mlfflm...
...literary voice is low and gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...
...this volume, lilac time lasts barely two years (with a few extensions), from March 1933 to the end of 1934. Originally. The Age of Roosevelt was to have been a one-volume job. but Harvard's Historian Schlesinger became so fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written...
Inspector Maigret, which has been at the Exeter for several weeks, is a bit on the psychological side, but not quite intellectual enough to be disastrous, Based on a Georges Simenon novel, the film concerns the untimely demise of a long string of plump, middle-age women in a small Paris district. The murderer becomes overconfident, and in one of his triumphant moments makes the mistake of calling the famous Maigret to goad him into action. Once the pipe-smoking, perpetually weary Maigret arrives on the scene, however, the ball-game is clearly over for the murderer. Using most...