Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard M. Hunt, head tutor in Social Studies, conceded that "the generals may be changed," though he said the basic format of oral and written exams will remain the same. "The Committee on Social Studies is open-minded and will lend a favorable car to any reasonable proposal," he said...
This week the baseball season ends with that annual national passion-the World Series. NBC will carry the games in color. Otherwise TV settles down, after the flurry of the new season's shows, into its normal format...
...already showing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and had just bought a police thriller called Z Cars. And, although some critics cheered the ruling, it seemed unlikely that ITV's replacements would be much of an improvement. Most British commercial TV shows are faithful adherents of the mindless U.S. format, and the audiences seem to like them that way. "At 8 p.m. I do not welcome heavy discussion programs, political investigations or information about how to have a baby," wrote Evening News Columnist Beverly Johns. "Supper is over and I want to sit with my coffee and be amused...
...network was not only gambling on soap opera in prime time but also doubling the stakes with another innovation-running the untested show two nights a week. But the network reasoned that 1) audiences could be hooked as easily in the evening as in the afternoon by the serial format, and 2) that the U.S., newly caught up in the "romantic escapism" of Ian Fleming, might be similarly ripe for the "realistic escapism" of Grace Metalious. Realism, of course, turned out to be a euphemism for a concentration of sexual adventurism such as no network had ever risked before...
High Infidelity draws and quarters the subject of extramarital dalliance, figuratively shaking the bedclothes to uncover four zesty episodes of an Italian comedy distinguished now for lively direction, now for superior performances. Its format is a series of irregular triangles edged with homosexuality, fetishism, jealousy and greed...