Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of many of these difficulties is the multitude of professions engaged in correcting visual defects. There are the ophthalmologists, M.D. physicians who prescribe corrective lenses as a minor part of their specialty of treating eye disorders. Then optometrists,* who may not apply medicine or perform surgery, but measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...
...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
...Guest (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-Premiere of one more effort to give variety shows a new face. The guests will be "ordinary people," who may or may not be able to perform. Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America of 1959, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra will be on hand to help...