Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernstein this season made the old Young People's series a bracing, fact-filled musical kindergarten for young and old. He wrote his own scripts for four televised, hour-long concerts (the last is due next month), using much the same technique as in the Omnibus music-appreciation series (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Teacher Bernstein combined, in equal parts, his musical knowledge, charm, eloquence...
This season the portly (229 lbs.), shaggy droll with the twinkling squint has hurdled the gulf from Omnibus to The $64,000 Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
Veteran Soapboxer Soper made his rebuttal on TV. "I agree that the ideal condition is that a child should be born in wedlock, but wedlock is itself an omnibus word which covers a multitude of relationships that have very little love in them. Many people don't know the love of a father now. I would rather . . . that a little child knew the fervent love of a mother. [Is it] a better thing to impose loneliness and frustration on women who haven't the decorative values to attract a male, and therefore can't get married...
...Omnibus: Prettied up for the color cameras and invited by NBC to take George Gobel's place on Tuesday night, this good grey lady did not quite know what to do with herself. Touted as a "hilarious report on the suburbs," Suburban Revue got about as far out of Manhattan as Central Park. Host Alistair Cooke showed up in skimmer, foulard scarf and blazer, to talk about the wonders of aluminum (spelled A-1-u-m-i-n-i-u-m, Ltd.). Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed...
...intellectual ghetto'' on Sunday has been crowded with rewarding shows, too frequently elbowing one another out of the viewer's sight. CBS's The Twentieth Century is a gilt-edged newcomer, and on NBC, Omnibus has dropped the apron strings of the Ford Foundation without a break in its stride. After a slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give...