Word: omnibus
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...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Kelly, whose direction of the new Broadway hit Flower Drum Song has kept him busy with Oriental dancing girls, undertakes to prove that dancing is also a "man's game...
...strictly orthodox is the nonconformist that it is impossible for him to say "a good word about Dulles, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson . . . James Gould Cozzens, or a bad one about Henry James, Adlai Stevenson, Lionel Trilling or Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit...
...week before and, said Bernstein, "I changed whatever I had to because of the differences of personal interpretation. It probably sounded very different." Both Beethoven and Bernstein were at times almost too frenzied for the cameras to keep pace, but the show (produced by Robert Saudek and his Omnibus staff) gave a unique picture of a topflight orchestra at work and of One-Man-Show Bernstein as he shook, bounced, grinned, sang along with the score, hushed and spurred the musicians, gave cues as if blowing a kiss or throwing a dagger...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Peter Ustinov double-teaming the opposition as writer and star (Rabble-Rouser Georges Danton) of a play about the French Revolution...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...