Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace, the poorer the product...
...action takes place in one small room, but that pent-up, gotta-get-outa-here feeling is essential to the story. Regrettably, the actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production-often seem to be shouting past the spectator, as though still playing from habit to the back row, balcony. Only Actress Dee, as the wife, projects her existence without hollering her head off. Actress Sands, as the sister, has a wonderful tomboy charm and most of the funny lines: "I'm not interested," she bellows at her Nigerian boy friend, "in being somebody...
...sixty actors and technical crews of thousands. The sets have required weeks to install, and parts of one play had to be cut because not enough costumes could be prepared. But more important, the fear of failure has induced directors to hire professional actors to play important roles, a habit which seems to be spreading even to productions outside the Loeb...
...ably acted, and quite worth seeing. Center of it is William Baker, a once-promising, now dribbling, minor publishing-house editor who is yet the big fish for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres. There are William's dull mistresses, who have been more habit-forming than exhilarating; there is a culture-nibbling male spinster, a self-centered, vermouth-soggy ex-publisher. Dancing around William at birthdays and get-togethers, they bicker and collide, inflate their roles, deflate their rivals; while darting dandiacally in and out is a successful literary glamour boy, cruelly kind...
...didn't take long for spring football practice to become a national habit. Today every major football conference (except the Ivy League) in the country has spring practice, 30 days of workouts for the players and coaches to work on whatever individual or team improvements they wish. Spring football practice in the Ivy League got in the way of the free-swinging, de-emphasizing administrative...