Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a strange creature indeed in this world of mutation," Dirksen intoned, "if in the face of reality he did not change his mind. I do not apologize for my conduct...
...settle a dispute over a certain frequency allotment claimed by Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee recently requested a one-year moratorium on any FCC rules on pay TV, the commission did not mind very much-since the FCC had already managed to avoid settling the issue for 13 years...
With that sort of mind-blowing work load, the FCC, according to its critics, has all but given up and become a popsy of the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its ultimate power, the license revocation, is rarely invoked. And when it proposes an industry rule, the commission invariably backs down before implementation. In 1963, it recommended a regulation codifying the National Association of Broadcasters' own gentleman's agreement of 18 minutes' maximum ad time per hour on radio, and 16 minutes on TV. But as soon as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee began...
...grounds of her adultery, judges often overlook perfectly well-documented adultery charges and grant the divorce for extreme cruelty so that alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen starts to be aired, says Miami Judge Lawrence King, "I just click my mind off and don't even listen to their arguments." Agrees his local colleague, Judge Lee: "I try to make them understand that there is no reason to try to convince me of what an S.O.B. their mate is. How bad the man may have been has absolutely nothing...
...much of a pleasure to listen to, the staging makes it a delight to watch. The actors move swiftly and smoothly on, off, up, down and around the ingenious three-story set of Designer Ming Cho Lee. Their steps, gestures and facial miming are deftly coordinated with a mind-blowing razzle-dazzle of sound effects. Among the players, Jack Hollander is ebulliently disreputable as Wacholder, while Tom Aldredge makes an antiseptically uptight Wurz. The charmer of the production is Wurz's dimpled dumpling of a wife, played by Maxine Greene, 23, making her Manhattan debut-as a human being...