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Imperious Ways. Most A.C.C.C. members still profess a fundamentalism that might best be characterized as responsible extremism. But many who agree with Mclntire theologically have become increasingly edgy about his political pronouncements, especially his support of civil rights opponents like Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. Nor do Mclntire's internal political methods endear him to colleagues. A.C.C.C. General Secretary John Millheim notes that his motto seems to be "Let us reason together and do it my way." As for the I.C.C.C., Mclntire's political attitudes and imperious ways have proved so embarrassing to missions that an estimated...
Barrage of Sights. What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost...
Supported by $8,000,000 from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Office of Education and other Government agencies, Sesame Street is one of the best-researched programs in television history...
...best. A fantasy involving late medieval Cornwall and Kilmarth, a house in which Daphne du Maurier lives, the book shrewdly borrows an old device to exploit the current literary craze for communication with the dead. Richard Young, a suggestible publisher, is persuaded by a scientist friend to be guinea pig for his latest discovery: a potion which abruptly evokes the past. One sip puts Young in the company of Roger Kylmerth, an early occupant of Kilmarth, who is immersed in the intricate plottings of the neighboring gentry and even a national struggle between partisans of Edward III and England...
...their affinities ended with this recognition, because Lowell has been on the cover of Time. and Bly has become the most radical, angry, and influential poet of his generation (which is not Lowell's). Ten years ago. the best poets in America were still insisting on their own exclusivity; erudite and brilliant teachers the generation which included John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall Jarrell were acknowledged as a tradition in themselves. Berryman still is one, but Jarrell and Schwartz, along with Theodore Roethke, are dead and, since their deaths. American poetry has been seized by an urgency other than...