Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KELLOGG PRESENTS THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR (NBC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.).* The Banana Splits, a quartet of rock musicians and comedians, whips up something new in the way of children's entertainment in a weekly series combining live action, sprightly comedy, music and cartoons. Premiere...
...Music Man Stein's call must have sounded like tunes of glory. "We consider our entire firm to be a general staff," says President Ronald Jarvis Jr.. a reserve Marine colonel who helped Oppenheimer build the company. "The ranches and the herds are the regiments and divisions." The top echelon of the 99-man staff is largely recruited from the military, because Oppenheimer believes that soldiers "know how to act in a crisis." They Certainly ought to know the routine. Oppenheimer requires bimonthly inspections o_? ranchers, using Marine fitness reports...
...controlled panic, Annie launches herself into the kind of picaresque Parisian tour beloved of Vassar girls in their junior year. Boys woo her, flics pursue her; an older man takes her to a boite. Eventually, she and a cellist make beautiful music together on his pallet. When the sun comes up, Annie returns to bid farewell to her aunt and to her childhood...
...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...
...this struggle that Vonnegut most affirms. Even at the farthest reaches of his time-machine trip, his characters rebel and fight to salvage something human from the automated junk heap of tomorrow. As Helmholtz the music teacher says to Jim Donnini the delinquent, in an effort to explain how one might bring beauty into the world: "Love yourself and make your instrument sing about it." Though Vonnegut's performance is occasionally a little slick or a little sloppy, he does succeed in making his literary instrument sing...