Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form comes off best in ten-minute draughts...
...show's pervasive fault is that, instead of offsetting sweetness with lightness, it turns sticky with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
...result, a good deal of rewarding detail blurs into a June-moon landscape, an all-church-bells-and-wedding-bells kind of world. In spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...
...none of this altered what CBS President Frank Stanton described as the networks' "laxness of responsibility" in an industry that is little controlled and vastly influential. "Something has to be done before it's done to us," said Stanton, hinting at a more balanced program schedule or even at programing that the industry, possibly in an unconscious tribute, calls the "magazine concept...
...there has been no testimony; two committee investigators have merely talked to Clark about his business affairs. But even before the subcommittee took a hand, ABC confronted him with a significant decision: he must get rid of his outside music interests or else quit TV. The companies involved: Swan Records, Sea Lark Enterprises, January Music, Arch Music. (Entrepreneur Clark also has an interest in Drexel Productions, a TV packaging firm, and may have connections with Jamie Records, other record companies, a talent agency, a record-pressing plant, and a production company named Clarkfeld.) Faced with the ABC ultimatum, Clark decided...