Word: axing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With so much interest in the show and with all of its marketing possibilities it is hard to believe that NBC cancelled the show, yet it did. A collection of charges and counter charges surrounds the network's decision to axe Star Trek. "When you're working in television," said NBC Vice President Stanley Robertson, "you've got to realize that some shows are going to make it and some aren't. Star Trek was never a hard core success in the ratings, and we would have been justified in cutting the show after the first season...
...evaluating programs this Spring. They want programs that can pull their own weight. We're using their cars and supplies and not paying for it. I think they would have given us the axe anyway," said Timothy J. Laing '75, co-director...
...programs is less than tragic. Certainly, forcing Harvard to confront the realities of its connection with Washington is a good thing. But the sudden sharpness with which the cuts were performed is inexcusable. We take strong exception to the bureaucratic indifference with which the executive branch adopted the meat-axe approach in curtailing the areas of academic work that had previously been Federally supported...
...food-processing firm was recently found guilty of unfair labor practices. Yet other factors may keep her in her present post. "Can you imagine firing a Mexican woman?" asked a Presidential assistant incredulously. In general, dismissals will be staggered so that no one will appear to be getting the axe. Hopefully, it will all look like attrition...
...good people--Kael (The New Yorker), Hatch (Nation), Kauffmann (New Republic), and Sarris (Village Voice)--each have an axe to grind, and make no bones about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to transcend it. Simon is a classicist, and treats film with the same stern regard as theater; his occasional fault is literary pretension. Hatch and Kauffmann retain the social concern of the more serious '50's liberals, while Sarris's devotion to the Great God Cinema is at least more passionate...