Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Landscapes, by assistant professor of Music Allen Sapp, made fewer requirements of range, and the chorus responded with far more attention to details of tonal quality. Mr. Sapp is blessed with a poetic sense to match his extraordinary musical gifts. Taking five poems of T. S. Eliot, he has not merely assigned each syllable a note and made the work a straight declamation. Rather, he has readily displaced certain lines to enhance the lyrical effect...
Another important guest belonged to Comic Steve Allen, who had a televised talk with his boss, glib NBC President Sylvester (Pat) Weaver. Said Weaver, defending the network's heavily publicized "spectaculars" (color TV extravaganzas): "I have never met anybody who saw-that is to say, any just plain person as against a critic or somebody that is looking at it with a special frame of reference, usually his own witticisms-that saw these shows in color with the limited number of sets available, who just didn't flip his lid, as we say at the high executive level...
...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
...MERGER is in the works between third-ranking American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters and Dr. Allen B. Du Mont's fourth-ranking Du Mont Television Network. Du Mont, whose money-losing network eats into the profits from its setmaking business, is negotiating a deal for ABC to take over all Du Mont network programs to fill gaps in ABC's nightly program schedule. Du Mont will continue to operate its three stations individually...
...Democrats won 24 Senate elections, the Republicans 14. Of these, the Democrats re-elected 16 incumbent Senators, including eight from the South and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Montana's James Murray, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Delaware's Allen Frear...