Word: colloquy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLOBBING DAMPLY up the grand stairway of the Agassiz Theatre, to keep his appointment with Timothy Mayer's masterful staging of Jesus (A Passion Play for Cambridge), this reviewer passed by Peter W. Johnson--a Technical Director qualified to retire the title--locked in brief colloquy with a bearded minion. A conversation was overheard. Quoth the minion: "There are no more weights." Replied Johnson: "Well...use anything...
...successes included a muckraking series on the meat-packing industry, a first-rate U.S. TV premiere for Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs, and a colloquy between a group of concerned college students and a melancholy Walter Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance...
...impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes...
...Obey or Not. In a heated colloquy about the many variables in the child-parent relationship, Paul insists that when two parents disagree about a child's desires, the youngster's obligation is to the parent who opposes him. Jonathan disagrees: "Once you say go against what you want to do, that's everything. You have no principle related to right and wrong." But the older man is not really that dogmatic; he has already explained that though a young child cannot be expected to make the ethical decisions his son calls principle, an older child...
Gibes & Rankles. Why not? The dialogue is the liveliest and most literate on the air, and for all Buckley's reputation as a slashing debater, the purpose of the hour-long weekly "colloquy" is to inform rather than to insult. And of course Buckley has an opinion about everything. Sometimes, unlikely as it seems, he is a little uncertain about his subject matter. Introducing a program with Steve Allen on capital punishment, Buckley conceded: "My own thinking on the subject is confused, which, come to think of it, should make Steve Allen feel quite at home...