ical puts the date in and leaves no room for the event??

A couple of months ago ical suddenly started adding the date to my event entries and now in month view there is only room to see the date, not the event. How do I turn that off?

What it does is if I type in "7:30 p call john doe" it puts it in the calendar as "call john doe" and then on the other side of the entry it says in light grey " May 18, 7:30pm to May 18, 8:30pm " .

so because it says all that in light grey, there is no room for "call john doe"

so my calendar says: c May 18, 7:30pm to May 18, 8:30pm

in other words, the event is completely displaced by the date which I dont need to see because the event is already in the box for that day.

how can I turn this off and why did it start happening?

thanks,

Katarina