Word: kingdom
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...Dunton of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. made a year-end television report. Canada now has 24 TV stations serving three-quarters of the nation's population; its 1,200,000 TV sets give it a world-ranking of third behind the U.S. (31.5 million sets) and the United Kingdom (3,500.000 sets); work is now in progress on a direct relay system connecting all stations in Canada from coast to coast...
...Farrell's word for the average writer's economic situation. "Scrawny and having a rank odor," growls Novelist Kenneth Roberts. "Very discouraging," says J. P. Marquand, who adds: "It's harder for a writer to amass a fortune than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Writes Critic Malcolm Cowley in his appraisal of The Literary Situation: "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and westerns, I doubt that 200 Americans earned the major portion of their income, year after year, by writing hard-cover books." The 1950 census counted...
Queen Juliana of The Netherlands last week reminded the world that the Dutch are still a colonial power in the Western Hemisphere-by graciously relinquishing part of that power. The Queen proclaimed a new Statute of the Kingdom, giving Surinam (Dutch Guiana) and The Netherlands Antilles complete internal self-government and requiring consultation with the motherland only on such affairs as defense and foreign relations...
...With a bang that blew Wednesday night to kingdom come for the two major networks, Disney burst into television. Nine weeks ago Disney's first program, an hour-long (Wed. 7:30-8:30, ABC) flight on electronic wings over the panorama of Disneyland's coming attractions, won a phenomenal Nielsen rating of 41, was watched by some 30.8 million people, and, as ABC's President Bob Kintner put it, "cut Godfrey, the best in the business, down to size." In the next two months Disney was never out of the "first ten." ABC believes that "Disney...
...KINGDOM for a stage!" cried Shakespeare, but he could only dream and meanwhile curse the "unworthy scaffold" he must needs make do with. The stage, when Romeo and Juliet was first presented, was little more than a gangway shunted shoulder-high through a roaring mob.*Down these bare boards an actor strode, and with a wave of the arm required his hearers to believe they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until...