Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served...
...face the world. The spiritual hunger of our day is almost entirely this-worldly. People want help from religion in the present problems, spiritual and ethical, of their daily life. This tendency to be noncreedal and practical is precisely liberalism. There is an unintended but unmistakable liberalism in the popular religious books of the day. This liberal, nondenominational spirituality is all the more interesting because the authors are chiefly churchmen ... All of this urges a new task upon every modern religion...
...tune. Wherever they went in Italy this summer, tourists were attacked by the lilting, insidious and all-but-meaningless lyrics of Nel Blu, Dipinto di Bin (In the Blue, Painted Blue). From nightclub star to curbside troubadour, everyone was belting out the refrain of Italy's most popular song. And the tourists were humming it before they went home...
...already composed 15. The rest will be ready when the cast comes back from vacation for mid-September rehearsals. This is the first time Shosty has done an operetta, but he has turned out plenty of light music for films, and apparently he is again leaning heavily on safely popular folk motifs. The choreography is careful too; jittery western fox trots have been displaced by waltzes and polkas...
...questionnaires. Some of them even require references. Diane, who supplies contestants for both Dotto and Haggis Baggis (on a regular retainer) and also sends a few to Lucky Partner and Name That Tune (which pay by the head), conducts her own interviews-in-depth. She is opposed to the popular practice of giving written tests before screening contestants. "Anyone can look bad on written questions," says she. "And anyway, what good is it, however bright you are, if nobody wants to look at you? Look at the meatballs they get on Twenty...