Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly half-hour show can now cost a sponsor close to $3,000,000 for a 39-week season), he demands swifter omens of how his investment is faring. In 1956 sponsors dropped some 50 network programs because the ratings fell so low that, by Madison Avenue's sacrosanct formula of "cost-per-thousand," the price of reaching a given number of viewers rose correspondingly too high...
Much the same attempt to limit debate was made in 1953, but it accomplished nothing. Theoretically the U.S. Senate considers its rules virtually sacrosanct. It describes itself as a "continuing body"-with continuing rules. Its purists hold that the filibuster is not so much a deceitful parliamentary device as a bulwark of the high principle of "unlimited debate...
...chaos aplenty when the summer droughts end and the mountain waters, slimy and grey, go roiling and boiling over the cobbles of its main street, the Way of the Deluge, threatening homes and crops alike. But whatever else may suffer in Borgetto, honor-particularly a maid's honoris sacrosanct. No man may fall victim to the lure of dark eyes in a Sicilian village without the certainty of reaping his reward in death or marriage, and the maiden who talks with a man on the street from her chamber window and then lets him stroll out of her life...
...Wagnerians, the looming, medieval sets of Die Meistersinger have long seemed almost as sacrosanct as the music itself. Of all Wagner's operas, Die Meistersinger was the one deemed least adaptable to modern staging. But, for better or worse, Designer Wieland Wagner decided to refute the purists. Wieland only slightly distorted the interior of St. Catherine's Church in Act I. But the medieval Nuremberg of Act II was not only "dema-terialized," as traditionalists feared; it was totally atomized. There was not a trace of the famed gingerbread houses...
...Newspaper Days) and scholarship (supplements to The American Language). Author Angoff skirts his lasting impact. Mencken, who detested democracy, ironically democratized U.S. life and art. He made Babbitt-land so culture-conscious that Babbitt disappeared. He lampooned frauds in high places so lustily that no public figure has been sacrosanct since. Partly because of his blasts at the prissy genteel tradition, much of American fiction became as unblinkingly honest as fact. His vitality seems to have been reasserted with his death early this year. Angoff's "portrait from memory," for which the author must have started scratching notes...