Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religion. At 68, having ranged in his own poetry from a swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Alistair Cooke tours New York City at night from the Great White Way to the darker, crime-ridden shadows in Night People...
...move that seemed par for the television course, one black Sunday afternoon last season, NBC's low-shooting Celebrity Golf played through, while Omnibus was still searching for a lost sponsor in the Madison Avenue rough. But this week, after an 18-month absence, TV's most consistently high-aiming, wide-ranging show was back where it belonged...
Brooking no interference from advertiser or broadcaster during its seven seasons, the first five subsidized by the Ford Foundation, Omnibus saw a shifting list of 16 blue-chip sponsors (including the current one, Aluminium, Ltd.) pay for an average of only 70% of its time, and the program jockeyed uncomfortably between the three networks. The years also saw some memorable shows: Peter Ustinov playing "The Life of Samuel Johnson," Leonard Bernstein describing "What Makes Opera Grand," Joseph Welch pondering "Capital Punishment." The program had lived up to the credo of its imaginative producer, Robert Saudek: "I don't believe...
Saudek's first principles were again evident in the season's Omnibus curtain raiser, "He Shall Have Power," which explored the evolution of the U.S. presidency with a succession of evocative vignettes of its most forceful incumbents. George Washington, fussily acted by Larry Gates, fought with a Machiavellian Hamilton and a statesmanlike Jefferson over nonintervention in the French Revolution, establishing the principle of presidential supremacy in foreign affairs. A rasping, well-cast Jackson (J. D. Cannon) was seen raging against the National Bank. Webster and Clay replied in opposition and in kind, but Jackson torpedoed Biddle...