Word: hucksterism
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...Deal. A rare combination of huckster hustle, athletic endurance and intellectual curiosity keeps Weaver thinking, talking and grinding out long memos on subjects far beyond NBC's practical problems of the moment. "We are talking long-term vitality," he explains as he spouts notions for vast, if often vague, future enterprises. The public will not accept culture in large doses, Weaver believes, but through his spectaculars and other major NBC shows, he thinks that small injections of ballet, music and other serious arts have been paving the way for larger and larger doses. "This is integration of great cultural...
...paid $275,000 to sponsor the program, were as bad as TV's worst: guided by Cinemactor Paul Douglas, who used to be a radio announcer, the plugs for the sponsor were overdone and oversold. Complained Daily Variety next day: "The industry . . . found itself demeaned by an overanxious huckster . . . The real blind fault lies with the film biz, which lets an outsider take over the Academy Awards on the world's best-selling medium. Oscar night should find pictures being sold-not cars oversold ... If the film biz should continue its stupid failure to sponsor its own event...
Richard Nixon has been getting a pretty good press lately, topped off by TIME'S cover story [Jan. 18]. But now that he is the Vice President, is he any less the cheap political huckster who insulted the intelligence of his countrymen a year ago last fall? Some of us are not forgetting that this is the same "Trickie Dickie" of the fighting Irish wife, the cloth coat and Checkers. Remembering that irresponsible tearjerker he gave on television, could we ever have faith in anything he tells us? Long live...
...Huckster Kinsey's book is strictly for the birds, and for the bees in his bonnet as well...
...single set of ideas has been registered abroad through effective repetition"), the committee endorsed the President's plan to consolidate in one agency the separate information services now operated by the International Information Administration, Mutual Security Agency and Technical Cooperation Administration. But it warned against the high-pressure huckster touch: "American broadcasts and printed materials should concentrate on objective, factual news reporting . . . The tone and content should be forceful and direct, but a propagandist note should be avoided...