Word: downbeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rear Admiral Morison gives the Leyte campaign an orchestral sweep and grandeur. The individual sections tune up with snatches of preliminary air strikes and landings. There is the expectant, esthetic hush as the carrier task forces rendezvous west of the Marianas. Finally, the downbeat of H-hour sends the landing craft streaking toward the beaches of Leyte and the full tympanic rumble and brassy glare of combat...
...some point of adolescence, every schoolboy falls distantly in love with an actress. Few do as complete a job as Anthony, the downbeat narrator of this new novel, who carries the torch for his actress over a stretch of 18 years and then, lamentably, achieves gratification...
High-Riding & Downbeat. To the surprise of the critics and even the network brass, the people mainly want to watch westerns. And so horse operas fill half of Nielsen's latest list of the nation's ten top-rated shows. No. 1: CBS's Gunsmoke, starring big (6 ft. 6 in., 220 Ibs.) James Arness. Every one of the 21 westerns that opened the season is still going strong, another will probably be trotted out this winter, and at least three others are champing to cut loose next fall...
Both the high-riding westerns and the downbeat singers reflect a certain hardening of TV's arteries. The formats have jelled; the entertainment too often looks as mass-produced as the receivers. Production has shifted steadily to Hollywood, where the film factories grind out series after series like links of sausage. Despite its uneven quality this season, Playhouse go proves that Hollywood TV can turn out good live drama as well. But with the move of CBS's Studio One to Hollywood this month, live TV drama has lost almost the last of the roots that nourished...
...podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was the climactic moment of a current London Beethoven cycle, and once he began to conduct, he was hardly recognizable as the same man who had painfully shuffled toward the center of the stage...