Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KENTUCKY DERBY (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Wit and expert knowledge will be provided by Heywood Hale Broun and Eddie Arcaro; Jack Whitaker will serve as host; Chic Anderson will call the race at the 95th running of the opener of the triple-crown events. From Louisville...
...both the Smothers Brothers and CBS, the deeper issue is whether comedians have the right to make impertinent statements without network interference. Tommy and Dicky maintain that every self-respecting wit must lace his humor with social comment. Further, they say, CBS's insistence on its "responsibility" to edit out "bad taste" only perpetuates blandness and denies a forum of expression to young adults (who form nearly one-third of the Smothers audience), blacks, and any other minority with "unpopular" opinions.*"No one gets after Bob Hope for his views on the war," says Tommy acerbically. "How the hell...
Crazed Frivolity. McCarthy's training as a seminarian and a professor fits him neatly into Sheed's category. "Anyone who has ever sat around a rectory, or even an Irish living room, will have heard many duplicates of McCarthy's wit," Sheed writes. But for a presidential candidate, the McCarthy humor was a handicap, Sheed says, since it made him sound like "a 13th century eccentric, a man of crazed frivolity." Too often, his bookish metaphors made "a man of rather direct and earthy intellect seem vague and woolly." He appeared to be "a lofty bumbler, sacrificing...
Moreover, Noland's supposedly impersonal canvases are vividly imbued with a dozen remarkably personal characteristics-pride, imposed logic, arrogance, grace, wit, independence and inner tension. Noland conveys these qualities, not deliberately but intuitively. In such works as Vista or Via Gleam, which to the superficial casual viewer may look like mattress ticking, his pride is made manifest through their towering dimensions. These 5-ft. by 12-ft. canvases surround and subdue the viewer with their commanding presence. The artist's grace and bravado show up in the audacious ease with which he lays together subtly different, visually demanding...
Easy Answers. After introducing the TV magazine format last fall, 60 Minutes found a pleasing combination in its team of Harry Reasoner (wry essays, light sociology, neighborly wit) and Mike Wallace (aggressive interviews, hard-hitting reporting, biting wit). Yet aside from two informative stories on inequities in the U.S. welfare system and homosexuality in a state prison, 60 Minutes has drawn most of its items from the world of pop sociology. Lighthearted bits have been aired on the ski boom, shoplifting and the esthetics of ugliness. One piece on Rock Singer Janis Joplin might better have been...