Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tied down by a format that deals with just the most obvious subjects -- the administration, the Houses, the athletic teams, Harvard bureaus and offices -- the editors of Three Thirty One have managed to miss much of what was significant this year. Dean Monro's resignation and his Miles College appointment rate only a few paragraphs as does Dean Glimp's appointment as Dean of the College. Undergraduate anxiety about the draft, a topic which might have produced a nice mood piece, is barely mentioned. The only articles that seem to have any relevance to developments this year are a piece...
...yearbook is going to be successful it's going to have to drop this format which is based on obvious names, locations, and concepts. It's going to have to listen a lot more carefully to what people are talking about and thinking about. Its reporters and writers must start asking new questions and must learn to write to be read, lest they be superficial and inflated at the same time...
...just plain relax. They have followed the puerile plot lines of the regular adventure and comedy programs only to find themselves despairing once again in the land of déjà vu. "In all these series," says Johnny Carson, "the characters are predictable, the dialogue is predictable, the format is predictable. The audience is interested in something where they don't know what's going to happen next...
...Freer Format. Lesser-known prospects get screened at pre-interview sessions. Comedienne Joan Rivers was rejected six times before she was considered ready; she has been on 18 times since. After the talent is selected, Tonight staffers rough out a crib sheet for Carson, proposing possible lines of questioning and the guest's likely answers. Carson rarely talks to the guests beforehand, lest "they leave their fight in the gymnasium...
...contrary. On the other hand, Carson did fire Tonight Producer Art Stark, who was also a close friend and associate for eleven years. Explains McMahon: "Art was more fixed in his idea of the show. Johnny has a freer idea-more explosive." Staffers say that Carson insisted on format changes-chiefly bits that would allow him to get out of his chair for more skits and business with guests-and that Stark was all for adhering to the successful formula...