Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...
...Children are least disturbed by serialized thrillers, such as westerns, in which the ritualized ending brings back the hero reassuringly after each episode. They enjoy being scared, but become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama. Some children prefer adult crime thrillers precisely because they seem less realistic. To children, daggers and sharp instruments are more scary than guns, a real-life prizefight more upsetting than a western's barroom brawl...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tchaikovsky's delightful Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, as staged by famed Choreographer George Balanchine. Along with 40 children, the dancers include 55 adult members of the New York City Ballet, led by Soloists Diana Adams and Allegra Kent. For viewers who need words as well, Actress June Lockhart narrates live and in color...
...easy as it is to conclude that the university faculty exists to promote scholarship, it would be foolish to suppose that more than a small minority of its patrons, adult or younger, either seek or receive training in serious research. Scholarship has always been an important but esoteric pursuit confined to a few deviants...
...seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think on a level close to that of their charges (aged two to twelve) but have the maternal feelings of adult women...