Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Pope Pius XII told an international pilgrimage of editors that films and television exercised "a unilateral influence ... on man, and more especially on youth, with its almost purely visual action carrying with it such a danger of intellectual degeneracy that one begins to consider it a danger for all people...
When Rudolf Bing set out last spring to improve the "visual aspects" of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the first eyesores he operated on was the Met's stumbling opera ballet. Since dancing appears in some of the most popular operas in the standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...four musical numbers without labored cues or excuses, relies on bouncy tunes and the simple showmanship of Durante and O'Connor instead of costly production routines. The plot is nonsense, and The Milkman's four scripters have tried to-use it wherever possible as a springboard for visual comedy in the silent-movie tradition. Unfortunately, the effort too often is no more inventive than the second-rate dialogue that overburdens Comedian Durante. The picture brightens considerably whenever the sight gags pay off, e.g., Durante cooking the breakfast eggs, toast and coffee on an electric blanket...
...Companions) Priestley to the London News Chronicle: "We live in an age when no man of any importance ever admits he was wrong . . . Infallibility is cheaper than rotten herring ... I said after the war there would be a wonderful popular appreciation of the best literature, drama, music, and the visual arts ... I was wrong. And now, gentlemen, step...
...they come. Well-married, he had graduated from a West Side hotel to the East Side's expensive River House. Convinced by his new personal manager, Ernie Anderson (who is also Louis Armstrong's press-agent), that he could be a "stellar nightclub attraction," Joe had "gone visual": even though he stutters slightly, he was booked for a 22-week television show...