Word: mitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is no love or tenderness in this Blanche. A dimension has been omitted. What should be a woman desperate for love, protection, and security is merely a woman desperate for sex. As conceived by Mr. Rabb, it is difficult to imagine Blanche's remaining faithful even to Mitch, her Rosenkavalier, the man she wants so desperately to marry...
...unable to help him. She failed him, and in the end destroyed him. She has continued through life looking for an anachronism--a 19th-century gentleman in a hard, fast-moving 20th-century world where gentleness in a man has become synonymous with weakness and or effeminacy. Mitch is her saving grace, but Mr. Rabb gives little emphasis to Blanche's desire to marry Mitch. He emphasizes only her vulnerability, and to play only her incapability to survive is merely to play the result of the situation. One must not ignore her courage and her sincerity...
Since he believes that musicians develop sharp business brains through constant bargaining with orchestra leaders, managers, recording companies, etc., Lieberson has put musicians in charge of his chief divisions. He hired Mitch Miller to run the popular-record division "despite the whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard...
...Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor-ee"). Most promising of the fledgling singer-composers is a 19-year-old Juilliard piano student named Neil Sedaka, who scored a hit with his recording...
Unfortunately, having launched a top-notch series, the sponsor (Lincoln) marred it by ill-chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...