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...prepares next fall's schedule, it has 55 pilots to choose from. Instead of being overjoyed at all the work, however, producers are complaining that both CBS and NBC want too much too fast. "Everybody is being drained, and there is a waste of talent," says Ed Montanus, president of MGM television (How the West Was Won, CHiPs). "Some of the really good writers and producers are becoming disillusioned and moving out. We're working in a Barnum & Bailey atmosphere, and the guy with the strongest stomach is going...
Enthusiasm is almost as old as Christianity itself. Author Knox detects the seeds of it in the Corinthian church to which Paul wrote his famed epistles. Here, as among the frenzied followers of Montanus (about 175 A.D.), he notes the growing importance of women. From the Montanist movement on, "the history of enthusiasm is largely a history of female emancipation, and it is not a reassuring one . . . The sturdiest champion of women's rights will hardly deny that the unfettered exercise of the prophetic ministry by the more devout sex can threaten the ordinary decencies of ecclesiastical order...
From the moment when Appius Claudius's secretary, Fabius, stole and publicly exhibited the Kalendares of the Roman priests, three hundred years before Christ, the calendar of days has belonged to the people and held a head position in the almanacs of all nations. In 1472 the astronomer Regio-Montanus originated the present form of the almanac. The first book to be printed in the colonies was "An Almanac calculated for New England, by Mr. Picrce." The printer was one Stephen Daye of Cambridge; the date...
...creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human...
...opening program under this new plan is interesting in its variety: Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" were given. This was the first presentation of "Fame and the Poet" on any stage, and Lord Dunsany, who attended the premiere, declared himself highly satisfied with the treatment which his work received from the hands of the amateurs. "Erasmus Montanus," by Holberg, "the Moliere of the North," won the better notices of the two plays. But the eighteenth-century satirist has yet to catch the popular taste...