Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monty Memoir," which had Field Marshal Montgomery recalling those bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
...fans reacted, he might have been Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain all rolled into one. In Bradley's first two home games, 30,000 fans (twice the usual number) jammed Madison Square Garden to cheer his every move. In the experts' cool appraisal, his debut was no more auspicious than that of any rookie starting out-and having a tough time of it-in the pros...
Philharmonic No. 3 felt free to mark its debut with a novelty-packed program: the Beethoven Fifth (which New York had heard only once before), arias from Weber and Rossini operas, and assorted works by composers who ranked among the innovators of the time, including Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Johann Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda. Founded by the eccentric but talented violinist-conductor Ureli Corelli Hill, the orchestra gave only three concerts its first year. It charged the astronomical price of $1.11 a ticket (the going price for 20 Ibs. of beef). Unlike the Vienna Philharmonic, though, which was founded the same year...
...well with the Beatles or Zero Mostel in a toga. Of the welter of punches Lester aims at his broad target, only a few can land with appreciable force. The rest necessarily have to deflect off each other, mutually weakening themselves. When John Lennon, in his non-Beatle debut, dies, he dies in a realistic ugly field with realistic blood spewing from his abdomen. But he doesn't just die realistically. He sits there, observes the blood oozing out, looks up at the audience, and says, "I knew this would happen. You knew it would happen too, didn...
Measured by its originality, seriousness, consistency of characterization and imagery, or emotional force, Sally's Hounds would be an auspicious debut. Measured by all these taken together, it is something more, a first film of first quality...