Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, established at Princeton University as lecturer in the humanities, Mann carried on the fight against "Europe's Dark Age." He wrote polemic pamphlets, lectured with a certain dry sententiousness, and broadcast to Germany. His books were translated and were bestsellers. It did not seem to matter that his writing was loaded with obscure symbolism and mythological references, was ironic in outlook, discursive in method and difficult to translate; Mann stood for European culture at its best. In 1941 the family (six grown-up children) moved to Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Mann completed a four-volume work called Joseph...
Then Orpheus smashed his lyre to the floor and the orchestra ground to shocked silence. Thus last week did La Scala Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo-sometime (1947-54) of the Metropolitan Opera and a notable Iago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello-throw the skids under one of the first operas ever written, Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607). From the wings issued a flying wedge of furies, shades and demons, screaming insults at the baritone, who made a hurried and unheroic exit. Umberto and his lady rose uncertainly as the audience broke into loud jeers, cheers and whistles...
...Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A repeat broadcast of "Science Fiction." Discussed by Aldous Huxley, Marc Connelly, Clifton Fadiman...
...told doctors of his abiding love for hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen to the comin'-round-the-mountaineers, Johnson hinted, it would help relax him. The doctors considered and agreed. Johnson got his radio, and was soon listening to every news broadcast and political commentator that he could reach on the dial. There are few things that he loathes more than hillbilly music...
About 48 hours before the show was to be broadcast on 74 TV and 96 radio stations, Molotov's appearance on it was canceled. "We regret," CBS announced, "that Mr. Molotov would not take the advantage of this opportunity to face the American public with his views . . . The right of free questioning by the press and open discussion is the cornerstone of international understanding, and we hold open our invitation for any key representative of the Soviet government to participate in such a discussion...