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Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...
...UNICEF's constant need for funds. The film's chief purpose, says Kaye, "is to bring to the attention of the people of the world what UNICEF is doing."* There were no shooting schedules, no rehearsals, no retakes and none of the familiar TV tinsel and dross-but a lot of unfamiliar spontaneity and holiday glow...
...change); it is much more that by diminishing James's story to a mere tampered-with story line, by restricting James's characters, to the role of mere plot carriers, Bolton has burned away the gold of James's great moral drama to leave the period dross of his somewhat too-fictional tale...
...been busy, Virginia, helping along the poor little people, and gleaning a little floss from the dross. How do you think Dorothy Kilgallen would have had a chance to write again without the murder trial? Why do you think Hemingway got a Nobel Prize right after hurting his head, And who do you think has been busy in his North Pole workshop whipping up a new wing for Winthrop House...
...choice. Landscape, he had decided, was the proper subject of his art. With pantheistic fervor he poured his feelings about nature into half-recognizable abstractions, trying always to dissolve what he saw into what he felt. Pure feeling was the gold Dove sought to distill from the dross of his materials...