Word: serious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small chorus competently led by Emily Romney. Stephen Addiss' music contented itself for the most part with a two-part chanting of the text which was serviceable but monotonous, only occasionally relieved by moments of lyric freedom. The other two dances, "Emergence" and "Academic Allegory" were both abstruse, one serious, the other light, and set to music that was eminently unsuitable for dancing. The choreography for all these dances was static, concentrating heavily on cute but unsteady poses, arm movements, and writhing, often made to substitute for lack of motion, phrasing, and invention...
...management have adopted such diametrically-opposed stands, any settlement will involve a substantial retreat by either or both sides--or even government action such as compulsory arbitration or temporary seizure of the railroads. Rail transportation cannot be halted for more than a week without economic consequences far more serious than the repercussions of the steel strike, at least in the opinion of many economists...
...effort to find out what Bagnoli could do. And, truth to tell, Bagnoli wasn't faring too well. He had trouble catching the ball with the cumbersome cast on his hand, and had developed a mental block about diving to his right. But although Munro had some serious doubts, he still could not discount Bagnoli. "He can do anything he wants to do," Munro said...
Kintner and all other top TV men are equally opposed to the far more serious proposals from Pundit Lippmann for an independent TV network, devoted to "civilized entertainment," and the Christian Science Monitor's plea for a network modeled roughly on the British Broadcasting Corp. Both the noncommercial BBC and the British commercial ITV probably give a better balance of educational and entertainment programs than do U.S. networks. But as soon as Britain's commercial channel went into business three years ago, its lower-brow fare began to take the bulk of Britain's "telly" viewers away...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Filmed in India, this sobering documentary is a careful study of one of the sociologists' most serious problems: The Population Explosion. Indian officials and Indian and U.S. religious leaders discuss the significance of the startling (49 million a year) growth in the world's population...