Educational TV battles over funding and control
Milton R. Bass analyzes the clash in educational television as deans are ousted, students protest, and funding battles intensify. He traces Ford Foundation support, the rise of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory, NET and PBS tensions, and the Big Eight stations’ bid for all money, amid a year of memos and power plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Foundation
National Radcation Television
Boston
San Francisco
Fred Friendly
CBS News
The
Public Broadcast Laboratory
Yard Foundation
ETV
NET
PBL
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Corporation
Ford
PBS
Big Eight
Washington
New York
Educational TV
Nixon
John Son
Mr. Friendly
Fred Bohen
PBS Ed TV tensions and a Williams College concert clash
In Washington and New York educational TV factions clash over philosophy and funding with NET PBS and the Nixon administration at odds while Williams College hosts Music in the Round in Thompson Chapel. The concert features Julius Hegyi and a chamber ensemble performing Krenek Vogel Ginastera Schubert with free student admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Heggi
Thompson Chapel
Williams College
Shakespeare In Courtyard Style At Williams Inn May Shows
Williams College Studio Theatre and Williams Inn present Henry IV Part 1 in the Inn garden in Williamstown from May 15 to 17 at 6 p.m. The production recreates Elizabethan courtyard staging for modern audiences. Directed by Martin Lafferty, the cast includes Christopher Hastings Jeffrey Nelson Jack Urquhart and William Weiss. Anne Tredway Benn ington College designed costumes and Williams’ David Prouty wrote an original score. Tickets are sold at Adams Memorial Theatre and the Williams Inn.
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Williams College Studio
Williams Inn
Williams Inn Garden
Williamstown
Martin Lafferty
Christopher Hastings
Jeffrey Nelson
Jack Urquhart
William Weiss
Anne Tredway
Bennington College
David Prouty
Williams
Adams Memorial Theatre
Wiliams Inn
Tickets Available For Mary Sunshine at Berk Shire Museum
Tickets are available for all weekend performances of Lite Mary Sunshine, the musical comedy presented by Town Players at Berk Shire Museum, opening Thursday night at 8 30.
Capitol renvoation halts daily movie schedule
The timetable lists multiple venues including Capitol, Sunset Drive-In, Berkshire Drive-In, Pittsfield Drive-In, Coury’s Drive-In, Hoosac Drive-In and Union Square days closed or modified. Showings at Capitol include The Sweet Body of Deborah at 2:40 5:50 9:05 and 2000 Years After at 1:05 4:25 7:45. Union Square features The Killing of Sister George with limited matinees. other venues list titles like The Miracle of Love and The Lion in Winter with various showtimes.
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Deborah
Union Square
George
Sun
Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth at PHS by Seniors
Pittsfield High School senior class presents Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play The Skin of Our Teeth directed by Robert Sage. Performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the PHS auditorium with tickets from cast members or at the door.
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Wilder
PHS
Pittsfield High School
Thornton Wilder
Daunis To Present Piano and Organ Recital
Michael P Daunis a PHS sophomore will present a piano and organ recital at Mrs Nicholas J Ranti studio 31 Garden St Friday night at 7 45 The public is invited He will perform a two piano arrangement with his teacher in addition to piano and organ solos Refreshments at intermission
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Mr. Hegyi
Daniel Grove
Berkshire Symphony
Susan St. Amour
Rudolph Doblincella
Stephen Girky
Margaret Hanford
Charlotte Hegyi
Ernst Krenek
Schonberg
Wladimir Vogel
Alberto Ginastera
Ginastera
South America
United States
Don Rodriga
Boinarzo
Mrs. Heggi
Michael P. Daunis
Nicholas J. Ranti
Garden St
Daunis
PHS
Ranti
Gilder Profiles Buckley in Playboy Feature
George F. Gilder of Tyringham writes on William F Buckley Jr in the May Playboy issue. The piece titled Gods Right Hand portrays Buckley as a storm watcher and kibitzer with roles editor author debater and a scathing critic of liberal establishment rather than a storm trooper for the conservative right. Gilder, 29, a former Nixon speechwriter, previously authored The Party That Lost Its Head in 1966 and is preparing a book on the Nixon administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Gilder
Eagle
Tyringham
William F. Buckley Jr
Playboy
God
Buckley
Gilder
Goldwater
Scenic Berkshires and Hudson Valley Heritage Drive Tour
An extended travel guide outlines a river route starting at the Parker Dunn Memorial Bridge in Albany and following U.S. 20 to New Lebanon and Hancock Shaker Village. It highlights antique shops, scenic Lebanon Valley views, Arrowhead and Holmes homes, the South Mountain Concerts festival, Lenox landmarks, Tanglewood music, Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Hawthorne’s cottage replica, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presence, and side trips to Stockbridge, Catkskill Game Farm, and Coxsackie on a tour through Berkshire and Dutch Patroon country.
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Parker Dunn
Pittsfield
Arrowhead
Melville
Oliver Wendell Holmes
South Mountain
Coolidge Estate
U.S. 7
Tanglewood
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Berkshires
Hawthorne
Tanglewood Estate
Boston Symphony Orchestra
U.S. 20
Lee
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Cuba
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Fallamar Pictures International
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Tom
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McCullough
James Garner
Joan Hackett
Walter Brennan
Vincent Rice
Anne Francis
Shakespeare
Capitol
Sunset Drive-In
Berkshire Drive-In
Pittsfield Drive-In
Coury’s Drive-In
North Adams
Hoosac Drive-In
Adams
West Springfield
Pitts
Albany Rd
Lebanon
N.Y
Salt & Pepper
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Sage
Robert Sage
Betsy Gregory
David Chapman
Bruce Taylor
Cindy Towne
Randy Rocca
Kathy Dudley
Martha Mignarczyk
Kathy Taylor
Dave Weeks
Richard Hall
Fred Tower
Pat Abell
Peggy Sharland
Edna Haywood
Linda Sayers
Kathy
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George Gilder
Berkshire Museum
Terrif ET Cadoge
Lavina Ey
Ing ‘Ps
Walter Reave
Continental
Peter Cushing
Steve McQueen
Frank Bullitt
Ature
Peter Sellers
Love You
Alice B. Toklas
ST . Fir
Schenectady
Albany
Catskill Game Farm
Coxsackie
Hudson
Catskill
Massachusetts Mountains
Lenox
Bullfinch
Jacob's Pillow
Becket
Stockbridge
Red Lion Inn
Daniel Webster
Martin van Buren
John Sergeant
Jonathan Edwards
Friends of Our Fathers
Great Barrington
William Cullen Bryant
New Lebanon
U.S
Hancock Shaker Village
American Museum OF Firefighting
Harry Howard Avenue
Rip van Winkle Bridge
Rip van Winkle
Route 385
Continental Congress
West Coxsackie
American Petroleum Institute
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