Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wiggles, slides and quirks it is capable of, and Arnell's Concerto Capriccioso, marked by rich string harmonies and a delicate interplay between the solo violin and the winds. Privately financed, the Music-in-the-Making concerts feature question periods during which the audience is invited to quiz the composers. Asked one listener after hearing Polaris: "Was this work written for or against the French horn...
...contest finally ended, with so many perfect scores that the Trib didn't even bother to print the names. The affair was, in fact, an early symptom of quiz show cheating and payola, but no one knew it at the time. The Tribune finally decided on a tie-breaking device: a huge page full of letters and names of towns. Contestants were supposed to compile as many names as they could with the available list and the available letters; there was a complicated scoring system. At this point, many people decided the hell with it (particularly the educational types...
...supervision to ensure that broadcasters are motivated by what ex-President Hoover called "something more than naked commercial selfishness." Holders of station licenses, said Rogers, are "trustees for the public," and what he thought of some trustees was made abundantly clear by his review of the quiz scandals...
Crassly Commercial. In broadcasting, wrote Rogers, "there is evidence of widespread corruption and lack of the personal integrity that is so essential to the fabric of American life." He also disposed of the excuse offered by network presidents for their crooked quiz shows, i.e., that they were merely duped by deceitful packagers; this, said Rogers, is neither a "practical excuse nor a legal one." But if he found broadcasters and advertisers crassly commercial, Rogers also found the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission incredibly casual. Beyond its licensing and rulemaking authority, the FCC has "investigatory power fully...
...world in which they perforce will move. It is all very well for young people to flirt with individuality and rugged independence, but when they get out of college they will have to learn that in this world we must conform--if the other boys push buttons on a quiz show, Harvard should...