Word: guests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nutcracker Suite is to Christmas as fireworks are to the Fourth of July, and this Christmas nearly a half million people will see Tchaikovsky's classic ballet. Last weekend the Boston Ballet, supported by guest stars from Ballanchine's New York City Ballet, gave three performances. Despite its popularity, the derogatory comments heaped on the ballet at its first performance in St. Petersburg in 1892 are still true. The music though lyrical, is Tchaikovsky at his most saccharine; the choreoraphy of Pea, the Russian master, and his assistant Ivanov, allows a lot of room for horseplay and very little...
Never in the 19-year history of Yale University's Chubb Fellowships-established to spark student interest in politics-had such intense preparation been made for a guest. Earlier "Chubbs" had included such controversial figures as Glubb Pasha (former commander of the Arab Legion), Adlai Stevenson, Barry Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus...
Greenwood's miniprogram is televised over KSTP in Minneapolis and WDSM in Duluth during the network break in Meet the Press. Called Comment Capsule, it consists of a film interview with a different guest each week. A crewcut, slow-talking fellow, Greenwood, 36, is introduced as the president of the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association, but the plug in his "noncommercial commercial" ends there. The real pitchman is the week's visitor, for Greenwood never interrupts nor asks any discomfiting questions. All he does is get the guest started...
Tuesday night T was presenting an hour-long tribute to Otis Redding, the Blues singer who died in a plane crash Sunday. A studio guest asked him to play a certain song. "No, I'm not going to play it," he said. "You could do a 16 hour show on Redding...
...Yeah, let's," the guest replied...