Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Side Story (book by Arthur Laurents; music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) gave the new season what should prove a very popular retelling of Romeo and Juliet-in terms of youthful gang warfare. It also suggests that the salvation of the serious Broadway musical may lie in neither text nor music-which, trying to coalesce, all too often merely collide-but in dancing...
...Integrated Networks. By hanging right on to the coattails of the Eisenhower telecast with a 15-minute updating of the situation from Washington and Little Rock, NBC commanded higher ratings than the popular To Tell the Truth and Broken Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing...
...Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest Chet Huntley and wry David Brinkley). TV's journalists flit all over, like the technically muscle-flexing Wide, Wide World, or work in a simple star chamber, like Interviewer Mike Wallace. On too rare occasions...
...Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer was more popular with U.S. and British audiences in the 1930s; no contemporary composer has a more secure place in the current symphonic repertory...
...carried to fame on an alcoholocaust of humor. ("I only drink to steady my nerves. And sometimes I get so steady I can't move.") He has long been known as "the comic's comic"a polite way of saying that he has never been widely popular with the public-and as a famous heckler-heckler. ("Come down to the pool in the morning, and I'll give you lessons in drowning...