Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passionate and imprecise discourse on CBS's Face the Nation, he damned the editorial as "the lowest kind of gutter politics." Lawyer Nixon demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit...
...Wozzeck. Today, admitting that he "may have been a little too aggressive," he praises the way in which Berg joined music to dramatic expression in the same opera. "In Wozzeck, the contradiction between pure and theatrical music has completely disappeared." Boulez's recent recording of the opera (CBS Masterworks) signals this change of attitude with its unfailing projection of just the right emotion, mood and orchestral detail...
...CBS was worried. Christina Crawford, one of the stars of the soap opera The Secret Storm, had been rushed off to the hospital for emergency surgery. Who would fill in for her? Mother, of course, for Mother is Dowager Screen Queen Joan Crawford. Price was no problem; Joan was happy with union minimum. But how could a 60-year-old woman pass for the 27-year-old she was to play? No problem either. A session with the makeup man and a youthful hairdo, plus her own well-preserved looks, turned the trick for the four segments Joan will appear...
Aristotle Onassis, who is vain about his public image, came in for a great deal of vitriol. But Hughes Rudd, commenting on CBS News' 60 Minutes, defended him. "The question of his being a Greek had nothing to do with it at all, of course: Prince Philip is actually of Greek descent, but as London cabbies are fond of saying, 'He's not one of your restaurant Greeks.' Well, neither is Mr. Onassis one of your restaurant Greeks. He's one of your shipping-millionaire Greeks, and he sounds a lot more fun than Prince...
...solution to the dilemma has finally appeared. Several piano companies, notably Wurlitzer, Baldwin and the CBS subsidiary Fender Rhodes, have developed electronic piano laboratories in which as many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when...