Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please. His null audience, says Bernstein, is far more mature than he expected. "They come to the music fresh, without any of the prejudices older people have." Bernstein's favorite among his listeners is the small boy who watched open-mouthed as the conductor chanted "I want it, I want it, I want it," in imitation of a phrase in Tchaikovsky. Finally, the boy turned to his mother and said in a brassy voice: "If he wants it that bad, why doesn't he say 'please...
What's the older generation coming to? The will of God still predominates over the will of man, but Donald Soper seems to think that whatever Lola wants, Lola should get-regardless of the natural...
...make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script of a novel. And he has been doing this sort of thing for half of his life. Says Ustinov: "This talk of Wunderkind gets more intense as I grow older and the white hairs crop out in my beard...
...content, but its intent. Edited in the Harvard community, it is not a part of that community. There are no night people depositing their yellow sheaves of paper at the Kirkland Street door slot. The authors are scattered about the nation, most of them belonging to an older generation. Audience, despite its opening editorial protestations, is just another little magazine. If there are too few in Cambridge, there are too many in America--from Washington Square to North Beach...
That sort of thing so well satisfies Rhoden's young customers (70% under 24) in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota that he can afford to shrug off television. "TV is for the older folks." says he. "A teen-ager who has a date doesn't want to stay at home." Rhoden waves off major Hollywood productions ("Gary Grant won't sell teen-agers"), even throws out westerns unless they have a young cast. Result: his 1957 gross increased 18% over 1956; this year's is still growing...