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...Oyster Pond, where specially outfitted gardeners had cleared away thickets of poison ivy. The McNamara house is spectacularly situated, at the end of a three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor to the house said it has had an air of neglect since McNamara's wife Margaret died in 1981. McNamara, who won't be back at the house until the fall...
...other channels are putting on what was once available only on public TV, public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire...
...drawing a line connecting the individual to the global, Gore here and there sounds as if his inner Ancient Mariner had lingered too long in adult- children seminars with John Bradshaw, and humankind might 12-step the earth green again. Still, the vocabularies of the recovery movement open interesting windows upon a civilization that is dysfunctional, much given to denial, addiction, co-dependency and brutal nature abuse...
...Bradshaw--Beattie--M. Scott Peck...
PROFILE John Bradshaw draws meaning from his own sad childhood...