Word: shoptalking
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...Personally, I think Sid Caesar is the greatest, but ..." The line has been echoing all season in Radio City and on Madison Avenue, in the top-level shoptalk about NBC's Saturday night Caesar's Hour, TV's best comedy show. TV bigwigs have not let their tribute to Caesar keep them from rendering unto the sponsor what is the sponsor's: the right to expect that so costly a show ($223,000 a week, including time charges) will pay off in a far bigger audience than its sagging ratings have reflected. Last week Caesar...
...best thing in the book is Low's shoptalk, e.g., his irritation with Churchill because a pink-and-sandy man cannot be properly rendered in black and white. The worst is an occasional resemblance to that dreary form of literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp...
...Renaissance figure. He does not care much for the unceremonious style of modern cardinals like New York's Spellman ("the American Pope"). He savagely attacks Pius XII, whose order curtailing the length of cardinals' trains by one half annoys him, and he is inclined to sarcastic shoptalk about the business of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, e.g., the authentication of relics and miracles, the litigation and expenses involved in canonization. Yet for all his apparently worldly way, the cardinal is a man of great spiritual astuteness, and his young French abbé comes to understand what His Eminence...
...instructive visitor is for ministers: a trim, digest-sized monthly called The New Christian Advocate, packed with 22 pithy articles under such headings as Church Administration, Architecture & Building, Pastor & Parsonage. Illustrations and features enliven the pages between pastoral shoptalk ranging from "Preaching on Controversial Issues" to "Psychiatry Needs Religion." The centerfold is devoted to a spread of new gadgets calculated to gladden a ministerial eye, like the Carryor ("enables the minister to carry his pulpit robe easily"; $8.75) or the miniature pew ("makes youngsters enjoy attending church"; $5.95). The purpose of the new Advocate, said Los Angeles' Bishop Gerald...
...weekly newsletter to members, Associated Press Newsfeatures offered a glossary of shoptalk. Samples...