Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting the mixed reception Jacob's Ladder received, one critic regretted that Vienna had done "so little for her great son and also does so little for him today." But Gertrude Schoenberg, who attended the performance, seemed content. Asked if she thought her husband still needed to be defended, she replied: "Any man who protests against Schoenberg today is opposing an art form which is already historically anchored; he only makes himself ridiculous...
...HITS, 0 ERRORS, concluded the New York Journal-American last week, summing up, in baseball jargon, its impression of President Kennedy's trip to Europe. But while the Journal-American felt that the President had at least got on base, many of the nation's newspapers were content that he got back without throwing away the game...
Control of Content. Historically, Germany was among the first television nations (a working set was demonstrated there in 1929), but the young industry got off on the wrong foot-Hitler's. As the first big-time TV executive, der Führer had thrice-weekly programs on the air by 1935, and public viewing rooms were set up throughout the nation, including sets with 180-in. screens. By 1938 home sets were ready for production. Hitler, foaming with estimates of the mass audiences he would reach, became the approximate father of viewer ratings. But with war needs, TV disappeared...
...balance in programing: 18.9% news and documentary programs, 15.6% sports, 15.6% light entertainment, 13.1% opera and drama, 4.6% movies, 16.7% children's and women's programs, 1.2% religious programs, 8.9% miscellaneous live programs, 5.4% station breaks, announcements and commercials. With the network firmly in control of content, commercials have even been introduced ($5,000 a minute), but they are not interstitial. They are entirely lumped into one 13-minute segment each evening...
...shrewd deal after another, the brothers proceeded to acquire or build up housing projects from Florida to Los Angeles, construction-material companies in a dozen cities, land developments all across the U.S., two water systems, several insurance companies and a corralful of other properties. Not content with making the building supplies for the houses they construct, they build the roads and the streets over which the supplies are transported. Says Clint Jr. with a grin: "We like to get our payoff coming and going...