Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Hollywood Talent Agent Bill Cunningham, the new Negro stereotype created by TV commercials derives at least in part from the notion that white buyers "won't go for actors who have very Negroid features. What we all see are the very attractive Negroes who, if you bleached their skins white, you'd think were Caucasian." Adds one agency talent director: "If they sound like Negroes, they haven't got a chance. They have to look like Negroes and sound like white people...
...Gounod's score, either. "It's sweet, it has charm and grace, and it's romantic -but it can bend any number of ways," he explains. Fortunately, Soprano Beverly Sills (Marguerite), Tenor Michele Molese (Faust), Bass Norman Treigle (Mephistopheles) and Conductor Rudel were on hand to see that it did not bend too much. Some traditionalists felt that it was going too far to deprive Marguerite of her usual departure for heaven in full view of the audience. But Corsaro decided that angels, bells and harps would be too much of a fantasia for the modern viewer...
These are hard times for music audiences that want to see as well as hear a lively show. Jazzmen turn their backs to the house and noodle obscurely. Rock groups shamble around the bandstand in rummage-sale outfits, sometimes acknowledging their listeners' presence only with obscenities. And as for the avantgarde, how much stage presence can an electronic synthesizer have...
...which calls itself a thriller, is waiting for the comely costar, Negro Singer Barbara McNair, to take her clothes off. Since she doffs her duds during the first half-hour, voyeurs can feel free to leave immediately afterward. There is nothing more for them-or anyone else, really-to see...
...myself, when I go into the college to recruit, I don't ask, one way or other, that is, it doesn't matter to me, you see, whether he's Jewish, Polish, Czech, whatever...