Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prestige?has all but obliterated its competitors in evening prime time. Last spring, at the end of the 1976-77 season, the network had the nation's four top-rated shows and seven of the top ten. CBS, which had been the premier network since television came of age in the '50s, managed to squeeze only two into the top ten. NBC, the granddaddy of all the networks, was able to place only one on those elevated rungs...
...comedies. Simple enough to appeal to kids, they were yet not so simple as to turn off parents. The mistakes of CBS and NBC, neither of which had done as much as ABC in developing new shows, also helped ABC. About two years ago, CBS's successes seemed to age all at once, while NBC seemed nearly paralyzed by corporate indecision...
Inevitably, Mary Martin has to over come the audience's expectation that some ghost of Nellie (I'm Gonna Wash That Man) Forbush will be hovering about the stage. She manages. Her one ditty is a wistful circus song that proves that at age 63, her heart wisely belongs not to memories of her glittering past but to a riper, richer present...
Hell, the real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week, teaching them good values." The speaker is New York Knicks Forward Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court...
After them among the daughters of utterly respectable Lord and Lady Redesdale came Jessica Mitford, known to her family as Decca, who scratched hammers and sickles on the windowpanes of her stately home with her diamond ring before running off to the Spanish Civil War at the age of 19 with a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill's. In A Fine Old Conflict, a sequel to her earlier memoir, Daughters and Rebels, Decca promises to explain why she in particular and Mitford sisters in general have behaved so-well, Mitfordly...