Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...drowned out in the floodtide of optimism. Delegates were so confident of TV's great future that few of them troubled to attend such seminars as the panel "New Slants on Creating, Writing and Directing." Explained one program director: "If we were to talk about what's wrong with the programs, we'd be here two weeks instead of three days." Monte Fassnacht of Chicago's WENR-TV concurred: "It's almost impossible to get good programs," he said. "I think a lot of the ones we have ought to be canceled, but what...
...church for "worldliness." Western Lutherans, the Hungarians noted, should quit trying to prod their Hungarian brethren into more sturdy opposition to the Communists. "They might consider if it is of any use for the Hungarian Church of Jesus Christ to give . . . expression to statements which are frequently based on wrong information and . . . are appropriate for aggravating our position . . ." Though the church is grateful for all the financial and material aid that has come from overseas, they cannot accept any conditions along with it, or any "sort of dependence on the donors...
...temper between Lachie, the hero, and his well-meaning hospital mates. The film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make things easy...
...programming calls for more than merely conforming to survey ratings and the philosophy of giving the public "what it wants." Many children claim television has increased their interest in "outside events," but when these events consist almost exclusively of wrestling bouts, mysteries, and westerns, TV is still on the wrong track...
...story was wrong, he continued, except the part about the "baggy pants." The article, by Eugene Griffin, described the Student Outlines office as "a cluttered third floor space presided over by a man in baggy pants...