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...network twice tried to share its risks and losses, first with 20th Century-Fox, then with its smaller rival BRAVO. But both deals fell through. The mortal blow, some industry insiders claim, was the announcement earlier this month by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a staunch advocate of highbrow programs, that he intended to retire next spring. By last week, CBS sources said, even Paley was troubled by the losses...
...modest production budget has kept losses "within handleable limits." BRAVO, which offers a mixed fare including cultural shows and foreign films, charges subscribers a fee rather than relying on advertising, but has signed up only 66,000 households. The Entertainment Channel, which imports much of its not-always-highbrow programming from the British Broadcasting Corp., has been distributed only since June. More failures may be in the offing. Commented Thomas Wheeler, N.C.T.A. president, after the CBS announcement: "Clearly we are in a shaking-out period...
...combination of good timing and fresh, forceful presentation, to speak for, as well as to, a large segment of society on a serious subject. Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, still two weeks away from its official publication date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues of The New Yorker, where Schell is a staff writer. The series immediately became the principal manifesto for advocates of a nuclear-arms freeze, as well...
Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
Basketball crowds may not be known for their highbrow taste in music, but the capacity audience in attendance last Saturday didn't need diplomas from Juliard to tell that "The Imperial March" was a mistake. Boos, hisses, and the kind of language normally reserved for referees were aimed at the band which as usual took it all in stride. "We try to be light, entertaining, non-chalant," said one band member after the fiasco. "The more crowd response we elicit the better--bad or good...