Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from political and religious taboos, Mexico's 103 licensed stations can arrange programs to suit their taste so long as 25% of the music they broadcast is native in composition. Of the 19 major stations concentrated in the Federal District 16 are privately owned. Leaving uplift to the seven Government stations, politics to XEFO, they apply themselves diligently to making their programs artistic successes. Outstanding among them are stations XEW, powered by 100,000 watts, and XEB, which is planning to step up its plant from 20,000 watts to 250,000 watts. (Biggest U. S. stations...
Clarifying my stand, any interest I may take in this contemporary hog-wash and sticky twaddle handed out by the so-called name bands of today is merely to uplift, to purge for the benefit of you cats, to reform jazz style back to the days of its pristine glory--the days when jazz was the finest expression of The American Ideal and a bulwark of democracy. When those things go, where is America? But I have been trying to uplift the present stuff and even my enemies, of whom I have legion, will admit that my attempt has been...
...United Artists). To hear a movie called a "class picture" sends a chill down the hardened cinemaddict's spine. "Class picture" is a trade term for films with a better than average cast, a resolutely esthetic director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they...
...talk to each other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...