Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specter & Cheer. One major bright spot of the season is the "special," as TV now calls its "spectacular." The genre produced one sheer disaster-Mike Todd's go-minute commercial for Mike Todd on CBS-but its batting average has been lifted high with such hits as The Prince and the Pauper, The Green Pastures, Annie Get Your Gun and the NBC Opera production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Most of these were in color, but there was still no big breakthrough in sales to U.S. homes of color sets, which now number only...
Supposedly, people improve a great deal with the coming of the Christmas spirit. All this proves is that people are pretty poor news the rest of the time. And a walk down the block to the shopping area where people thresh about buying tokens of good cheer shows that they're not very wonderful during this time of year either...
...more worried about the economy than during the 1953-54 recession. Consumers are deeper in than they were in 1954, more troubled about the cold war, less confident about the Eisenhower Administration, so they find signs of sag more worrisome. The mood of grey caution took some of the cheer away from what a few months ago would have seemed very good news: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell declared that "the persistent rise [in consumer prices] has ended," and the Bureau of Labor Statistics followed up by announcing that its Consumer Price Index, after creeping upward for 13 months...
...There was a lot to cheer about the next night, too. when the new Dallas opera staged L'ltallana in Algeri, a much-neglected Rossini romp. The house was half empty-two of the city's most popular debutantes were giving a dance that night. Despite major obstacles-including a Texas chorus that had a lot of trouble learning to sing in Italian-the production turned out to be topnotch, with bright sets, smooth and funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably...
Disheartened, demoralized and disillusioned with the ineffectual leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and his doctrinaire henchmen, West Germany's Social Democrats have had little to cheer about since their sweeping defeat by Konrad Adenauer two months ago. But last week the Social Democrats plucked up new courage. In Hamburg, the federal republic's biggest city, they turned out the Christian Democratic coalition administration and won election by the biggest political victory in their party's 100-year history...