Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics were written by Richard Wilbur, with help from John LaTouche, Dorothy Parker, Miss Hellman and Leonard Bernstein. They are about on a par with the libretto. Most of the songs like "The Best of All Possible Worlds" and "Eldorado," play upon Voltairean cliches with repetition and insipidity...
Although uneven, Leonard Bernstein's music is one of the nicest things about the show. With few singable melodies, the music is ingenious and often surprising...
...state polls supported Gallup; e.g., second-week returns from the New York Daily News straw vote showed Ike with 60.8% in the state to Adlai's 39.2% (in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City, Eisenhower, incredibly, led by 51.2% to 48.8%). At Republican headquarters in Washington, National Chairman Leonard Hall, participating in an office pool, scribbled down his guess on Ike's electoral total: 375. And at Democratic headquarters a weary staffer said sadly: "There is a kind of lull in the campaign...
...Show. Explained ABC-Paramount President Leonard Goldenson: "ABC television sales are not up to expectations for the 1956-57 broadcasting season. Fall sales of the important Mickey Mouse daytime TV program are considerably below those of last year." Actually, Kintner has had his troubles ever since Paramount Theatres took over cash-short ABC in a $25 million stock-swapping deal three years ago. Paramount then paid off ABC's $7,662,000 debt, put in a handful of Paramount executives, including three new ABC vice presidents. Two of them later resigned, one after he lost...
From the days of Mark Hanna through the present dominance of Leonard Hall, no one has ever accused the Republican Party of not being shrewd. The party's latest move, the Ithaca ploy, is certainly a marvel of political duplicity. By masquerading a television campaign program by Vice-President Nixon as a press conference designed to increase collegiate interest in politics, the Republicans have furthered their interests doubly. Not only do they achieve the usual effects of ordinary television, but they also gain the advantage of seeming to dispense absolute truth, in league with the legions of education...