Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned what to expect of warm-weather TV, network bigwigs can usually be expected to lay out, brightly glazed promises of summer fun. But this year even the networks have stopped making believe. "It's simply a matter of economics," explains CBS Programmer Hubbell Robinson Jr. "The winter shows cost so much we have to cut down in summer and save money." Some old favorites will stay on, encouraged perhaps by the upswing in sales of portable TV models to vacationing patio and beach viewers. But mostly this summer's TV will be a rehash of the late...
...format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy, sentimental Jack Paar picking up the pieces left by this season's witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty One, Steve Allen, Alcoa...
...Noyes: "It is such a short distance that we never wear coats, we often wander across in slippers and pajamas even in mid-winter...
...moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...starts with the Spenglerian notion that a society is like an organic plant, with a seasonal life cycle-spring, summer, autumn, winter. To this he adds the Spenglerian distinction between culture and civilization, i.e., during its culture phase a people paints its masterpieces, and during its civilization phase a people builds the museums to house the masterpieces it can no longer paint. Cultures are creative, instinctive, combative, individualistic. Civilizations are practical, scientific, peace-and-unity-minded, conformist...