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...sound" of the Voice, inaugurated last month, and so far audible only on English-language broadcasts, is adapted from the highly successful "magazine formats" now popular in U.S. radio and TV-an amalgam of music, news, discussion, comedy and anecdotes, with hardly any item running for more than four minutes...
Thrusting Towers. Los Angeles is an amalgam of disparate communities so bewildering that even natives do not know-or care-where one begins and the other leaves off. The city proper is complex enough, an agglomeration of 60-odd communities as different as elm-and-pine-shaded Encino in the San Fernando Valley and Venice, a tawdry oceanside spot ten miles to the south. The county's 75 other incorporated cities may be either outlying areas or, like opulent Beverly Hills, an enclave within the central city. Most U.S. cities have a single downtown core, but Los Angeles...
Last week's White House conference on Negro problems was a year in gestation. Lyndon Johnson conceived it in a speech at Howard University last June, then appointed a 30-man council to bring it to life. An amalgam of civil rights leaders, businessmen, educators, labor-union representatives and public officials, the council dreamed up a 104-page report that seemed to ask for a pie in every sky. Specifically, it called for sterner enforcement of civil rights statutes, "guaranteed employment" for all able to work, and equalization throughout the country of per-pupil spending on public education while...
Weary & Queery. Beardsley was influenced by Japanese prints and linear Greek vase painting, created an amalgam that also included serpentine art nouveau and traditional English silhouette figures. His subject matter was never innocent. Wrote Beardsley of a series of book cuts: "The subjects were quite mad and a little indecent. Strange hermaphroditic creatures wandering about in Pierrot costumes or modern dress; quite a new world of my own creation...
Skirts rise, movie screens widen, and astronauts walk in space, but in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden it is 1898-and will be until the circus leaves town. Last week the Greatest Show on Earth came north with the birds, bringing its customary amalgam of animal and human acts from Europe and America. Some concessions are made to the 20th century: there is an elephant production number entitled "This Is New -Pussycat," and 50 sumptuously undercostumed ballerinas go through the Radio City Music Hall bit (step, two, three, whirl, kick) to the tune of What's New, Pussycat...