Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went in the 1931 meeting undefeated and united. The game had barely started when Crickard of Harvard raced all the way to the Yale seven-yard line. As the Stadium crowd waited for the first Crimson touchdown, in the expected rout, the Bulldogs stiffened and held...
...middle culture is mass culture with a fig leaf," he continued, "While it pleases a crowd, it has high cultural pretensions." MacDonald cited the Saturday Review, Herman Wouk's novels, J.B., and his own New Yorker as examples of "midcult...
...anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare. J.B.'s quality of language and quality of thought make it one of the few plays worth paying Broadway's orchestra-seat ransoms to see.... a masterpiece ... one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre ... the New York theatre crowd was jolted out of its sophistication. Milling at the intermission, filing through doors, Manhattan secretaries with their tweedy, nebulous fiances, asthmatic maiden aunts from New York, students and old gentlemen and matron dowagers were discussing innocence and evil and faith and love and what is guilt with a passion admirable...
...game was marred by frankly partisan officiating. Two Rhode Island referees, who consistently amazed the large homecoming crowd by shouting "our ball" when Brown had possession, also alerted the Bruin goalie when a Crimson threat was brewing, and made several questionable calls...
...while he was there, the pattern was clear: crowd-pleasing filmed series, westerns, cops, crime. Kintner feels that he had no alternative if he wanted to save ABC from being crushed by its two bigger competitors. During Kintner's presidency, ABC added 60 stations, boosted ratings. Kintner signed up Disneyland (for $2,000,000), built a good newscasting staff, including John Daly. He also turned down a chance to sign up The $64,000 Question: "It didn't seem to make sense-not, I hasten to add, because of moral grounds...