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...Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Columbia) is an excited reading of the seldom-heard work of the late Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Nielsen's melodious, strongly rhythmed music sounds like a primer to Shostakovich, and Bernstein makes the most of all its frenzied drama. It is, above all, a showcase for the Philharmonic's superb percussionists...
...second straight week, the House Special Subcommittee on Investigations poked and prodded at the A. C. Nielsen Co., the colossus of the television rating industry...
...president of Pennsylvania's Sindlinger & Co. cast doubt on the fixed-sample system. In this system-used by the giant Nielsen company and by Sindlinger until recently-a carefully selected roster of families is picked, checked, wired for sound, and taped for their TV-watching habits. President Sindlinger testified he was disconcerted because Nielsen discovered one of his tame watchers. Just why this bothered him was not fully clear, but it did induce him to change his ways. Said Sindlinger morosely: "I don't think the industry wants true figures anyway...
...learned words and verbal connections; the mind, that system of paranoid delusions with the learned self as center. And we eschew the non-mind, non-game intuitive insight-outlook which is the key to the religious experience, to the love experience." (T. Leary, "How to change behavior," in G.S. Nielsen (Ed.) Clinical psychology: proceedings of the 14th international congress of applied psychology, vol. 4; Copenhagen, 1962.) Whatever its truth, in some sense or other. Leary's estimate of the mind is inconsistent with the science game, with the professor game, and with the university game. A university is built...
...five short weeks, country corn sent CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies to the top of Old Smoky in Nielsen ratings. Its climb was one of the swiftest in the history of television. Scheduled opposite the supposedly invincible Perry Como, it shot him daid...