Word: owl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flipping the dial on my radio and not finding anything worth listening to." Recalls Smith: "I don't usually let personal preferences enter into business decisions, so I guess this was an exception." He met with CBS President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level." The commercials were to be soft-sell, the disk jockeys positively pianissimo, and everything uniform nationwide...
...oinks away as part of a work called Live Pig Cage I. "I'm not saying the pig is art or is not art," says the artist, "but she makes a form." Other goodies on view include a stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed boar (Serra's wife is an amateur taxidermist), bidets crammed with conch shells, beaten-up boxing gloves, and broom bristles. Of his crass menagerie, Serra says: "People didn't know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes...
...play by Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade); 2) a musical based on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, written and directed by Abe Burrows; 3) a musical based on The Fourposter starring Mary Martin and directed by Gower Champion; 4) a new comedy by Bill Manhoff (The Owl and the Pussycat): 5) a new play by Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!); 6) Hugh Wheeler's dramatization of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; 7) a play by Cartoonist Mell Lazarus: 8) an Italian musical starring Marcello Mastroianni. For the season after that, he has already...
Winnie the Pooh and The Honey Tree turns the Disney animaters loose on a tribute to A. A. Milne's classic storybook characters. The drawings are a rough but not treasonable facsimile of the famous Shepard illustrations, pleasantly introducing Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit. It is the voices that sound dead wrong. Speaking for Pooh, Comedian Sterling Holloway makes Christopher Robin's friend seem a dry American, as if the world of Milne had collided in Disneyland with the world of Twain. And Pooh purists will certainly wince at a new batch of song lyrics, starting with...
...question remains: Will philosophy ever again address the heavens? Will it contribute anything to man's vision, rather than merely clarifying it? Caution and confusion are not necessarily signs of disaster, and even Hegel remarked that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." But the shadows are deep and the time for an awakening is at hand...