Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will get a thorough test in the U.S.-and soon. The fact seemed inevitable last week, as another "free" but dismal TV season was running out, and more and more plans were firming up for what the phrasemakers in the trade are beginning to call FeeVee. Items...
...Dismal Prediction. U.S. experiments face similar uncertainties. The Hartford test, for example, will transmit its pictures over the air rather than by cable, requiring a complicated unscrambling device in each home. Instead of Telemeter's pay-as-you-see plan, there may be a charge account for home entertainment, a tempting feature that could cause trouble. Above all, will programs freed from sponsor and ad-agency control be better than the offerings of sponsor-supported networks? NBC President Robert Sarnoff argues that they will not, that pay TV will have to track down the mass audience just...
...counter pay-TV partisans: the toll system will allow quality shows to find their own markets, should be able to cover for its paying armchair audiences many topnotch attractions that have been inaccessible to TV so far-opera at the Met, Broadway shows, first-run movies. Sarnoff's dismal prediction, say pay TV's supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with...
Back in England, the colonial kid whirled in and out of schools, failed to get into Cambridge, distinguished himself by playing jazz piano in a nightclub called the "Blue Peter." At 18, he wrote his first novel, Pied Pipers of Lovers, a dismal flop. To rip off his "cultural swaddling clothes," Durrell fled to Europe, and in the early '305 settled on the Greek island of Corfu. There, Larry learned Greek and discovered a literary foster father, Henry Miller...
...immoral, sinister schemer. Though the doctor was enormously successful (part ownership of a thriving clinic, income of about $200,000 a year, a $50,000 home in the fancy Los Angeles suburb of West Covina, a 22-ft. speedboat, three cars), his marriage to Barbara was a dismal failure. It was a second marriage for both; they had met when she was his secretary and then had swapped spouses (he had three children by his first wife). The marriage was about six years old when he got involved in a hot affair with his medical secretary, Carole, who was also...