Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merrit asks me to pass on to what she calls TIME'S "sweet, nurdy, middle-aged critic" this clue...
...nation's "most outstanding educational television station," announced the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation last week, is San Francisco's KQED. For Program Director Jonathan Rice, the plush banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right...
...volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal Shem), shaping an interpretation that was sweet but not sugary, both poignant and filled with an old world charm...
Delia (Delia Reese; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). In a style that is not pretty and voice that is not sweet, one of the most exciting of the newer girl singers expresses her rather tigerish devotions in numbers such as If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight and You're Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck...
...best Barrymore tradition, but was soon sidetracked by drink and a series of freeloading friends and lovers while juicy tabloid stories and a ghosted autobiography (Too Much, Too Soon) celebrated the events in her decline; in Manhattan. Diana hoped for another comeback in a production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, hoped also, she told friends, to marry Williams. Fittingly, Friend Williams delivered a realistic eulogy: "She had great talent but no control. Without control, it was like an engine running away...