Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steve Allen Show (Mon.-Fri., 12 noon) started six months ago; since then, listeners with an aversion for the usual determined chatter shows have found welcome relief in Allen's aimless, leisurely style. A comic of the Godfrey school that grew with TV, Allen tells few set jokes, prefers the kind of cracks that grow suddenly and spontaneously out of ordinary situations. For the first five minutes of his show, he simply sits and chews over whatever happens to be on his fast-moving mind. Then he wanders around, reads (and makes appropriate cracks at) his fan mail, eats...
...final controversial features of the Council proposals deserve consideration: tutorial content and grading. As the Blackmer Report points out, the present content of tutorial in several departments is either overspecialized or aimless. Any new program should allow tutors freedom to assign work fitting the individual interests of each group. But it should also receive broad departmental direction to insure that the work cuts across course lines...
...first group gets what it wants, in a heavy and tasty dose. For the others, Geology is never very oppressive and often a lot of fun, but three years of scratching rocks and drawing colored lines may seem rather aimless after gradation...
...with no clear notion of what he wanted to be, settled on chemical engineering, but was better known for his eye for pretty girls than for his scholarship. With a B.S. from M.I.T. Greenewalt got a $120-a-month chemist's job at Du Pont, but was still aimless about his future. While watching vats on a graveyard shift at the old Wilmington research lab, he passed the time by practicing the clarinet, spent his off hours courting Margaretta du Pont (Irénée's daughter) his childhood friend. In 1926 they were married...
Alfred Drake's direction is generally aimless. As a contrast, in the dance numbers George Balanchine keeps a firm grip on things. The dancing ensemble is energetic and good, and soloists Peter Conlow and Gloria Patrice are a pleasure to watch. Balanchine's choreography is of the rough-and-tumble sort. At one point Monday night the orchestra trombonist looked a little worried about being hit by a flying chorus girl, but the danger soon passed...