Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...indirect reference he made to Wendell Willkie, in noting that the men who came to Washington to help in the defense program did not include "holding company lawyers or executives." To point his sarcasm on Republican Congressional opposition he twice rhythmically referred to "Congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish," to the cLlighted boos of the crowd...
...aged 23, she started her school in Wallingford, Conn., she had no college degree but very definite educational notions. British-born and a militant feminist, she decided that girls should get no more coddling than boys, set out to establish a girls' Eton. Her motto: "No rot." Her program: athletics for all, self-government, hard work...
...perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites as Kay Kyser and Information Please...
...difficult man is Commentator Priestley. Feverishly insistent on getting his just due in BBC publicity, he once raised hell for two days after the London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the studio, trumpeted within Howard's hearing that he couldn't write a good script for a program shared by "an actor fella." Always surcharged with temperament, he arrives at BBC headquarters at 8 or 9 for his overseas broadcasts, sulks fiercely if program directors and other minor officials...
Slonimsky recently completed the first comprehensive survey of contemporary composers of South America, an area little studied by musical scholars. He found that music had reached a high stage of development there, and that a great majority of composers write program music, taking their material from the histories and backgrounds and folk music of their native lands...