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...Rockefeller III on the stage, Leonard Bernstein on the podium, Jacqueline Kennedy in the audience, and a nationwide TV audience looking on. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts made its debut with the opening of the $15.4 million Philharmonic Hall. It is still surrounded by a pocked and chugging wasteland of bulldozers and derricks, power shovels and cement mixers, which will eventually be a 14-acre landscaped park containing a repertory theater, a theater for dance and operetta, a library-museum, a building to house the Juilliard School of music, and (by 1965) the new $35 million Metropolitan Opera House...
...bugaboo to the liberals, a savior to the conservatives, and a man of parts to the compilers of biographies. But no one ever thought of him as a TV critic -until last week. Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions of emotion over trifling problems! What meaningless violence...
Tuesday nights more than ordinarily bearable in the Wasteland. Last week's special was Burnett at her manic best. Instead of ending up as a homemade foil for the urbane Andrews charms, she came near to clomping away with the whole show...
...year after he told the National Association of Broadcasters that they were the overlords of a "vast wasteland," FCC Chairman Newton Minow stood before the same group in Chicago last week. "My speech last year ran about 6,000 words," he said. "Only two of those words seem to have survived. All of you know the two words I mean-public interest" The broadcasters chuckled manfully...
Cleared Chaos. This time Minow turned his attention to radio, a field too barren to be called a wasteland. There are more than three times as many radio stations now, he pointed out, as there were at the end of World War II; but most of them are run on the cheap, and the net result has amounted to air pollution. "In too many communities," said Minow, "to twist the radio dial today is to be shoved through a bazaar, a clamorous casbah of pitchmen and commercials which plead, bleat, pressure, whistle, groan and shout. Too many stations have turned...