Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personally, I think Sid Caesar is the greatest, but ..." The line has been echoing all season in Radio City and on Madison Avenue, in the top-level shoptalk about NBC's Saturday night Caesar's Hour, TV's best comedy show. TV bigwigs have not let their tribute to Caesar keep them from rendering unto the sponsor what is the sponsor's: the right to expect that so costly a show ($223,000 a week, including time charges) will pay off in a far bigger audience than its sagging ratings have reflected. Last week Caesar...
...this activity is the enjoyment and the "learning through doing" that the participants derive; the quality of the result and the size of the audience are properly secondary considerations. Still, this has not been a year of quantity alone. Happily, some of the productions have equaled the high level of excellence that characterized the efforts of the Veterans Theatre Workshop here in the late...
...generally high level of achievement in directing seven major Productions over the past three years: Stephen Aaron...
...Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity is unsurpassed, both in its many inherent benefits to those taking part and in its cultural and educational stimulus to those beholding it. Has not many a sage told us that all the World's a stage...
...machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with pay, attending college-level technical and engineering classes to get credit toward college degrees...