Word: intent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1952 Hallmark was a series of half-hour plays of vaguely inspirational intent presided over by Sarah Churchill. Hallmark's Executive Producer Mildred Freed Alberg, then only a freelance TV scriptwriter, persuaded Actor Evans to try his famed Hamlet on TV, sat down and wrote an impressive two-hour adaptation of the play. She persuaded Hallmark Cards' canny President Joyce C. Hall to back her. In those days, two hours of Shakespeare was a heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since...
...Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like an exercise in pure virtuosity than a statement of musical intent...
Judging by Dean Pike's conclusions that "how the viewer receives the experience [of seeing the movie Baby Doll) depends upon his intent," housekeeping is going to be a snap from here on out. If my intent isn't to see the dirt on the kitchen floor-well, it just isn't there...
...main fault with Audience is not its content, but its intent. Edited in the Harvard community, it is not a part of that community. There are no night people depositing their yellow sheaves of paper at the Kirkland Street door slot. The authors are scattered about the nation, most of them belonging to an older generation. Audience, despite its opening editorial protestations, is just another little magazine. If there are too few in Cambridge, there are too many in America--from Washington Square to North Beach...
Most racegoers agree. But thousands of them bet on Willie anyway. Their motivation is simple: Bill Hartack may not always win, but he always tries. From flag-fall to finish, he pumps and slashes. He scratches all over his mount as if it were a case of hives, endlessly intent on keeping the animal's mind on the work at hand. He comes down the stretch as though leading a Hollywood cavalry charge. The whooping and flopping of Hartack's style distresses purists. They call him the least stylish of successful riders in the history of racing...