Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans have always been good at homecoming ceremonies, the public splashes with which victors are cleansed: "The men will cheer, the boys will shout/ the ladies they will all turn out/ and we'll all feel gay/ when Johnny comes marching home...
...Peterson Elementary School in Atlanta used to dread standardized achievement tests. But this spring, when testing time came, their principal staged a pep rally and promised them a trophy and a party if they did well. It worked. When the results came in, the Peterson school had something to cheer about: after years in the doldrums, more than half its students scored above national norms in reading...
Even so, some of the companies whose names came out did make gestures toward cleaning up their acts. Procter & Gamble, TV's biggest advertiser with $486.3 million invested last year for such products as Pampers and Cheer, revealed that over the past year it had withdrawn its sponsorship from some 50 episodes. SmithKline, which advertises Contac and Dietac, responded to CBTV by expressing its concern in writing to the networks. A few other companies, including Gillette, Phillips Petroleum and Dow Chemical, took the precaution of getting in touch with CBTV. The judgment conveyed to Phillips Petroleum Media Relations Representative...
...defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that are not said elsewhere, expecting truth most of all. Even falsity in letters divulges a kind of truth-the false wit employed in writing to a clever enemy, the false cheer to a dull friend, the false authority to children, the false self-confidence to colleagues. Letters conceal almost nothing, which accounts for their power. Those few who have done them well ought never have been told: Don't write any letters...
Symbolism can be overdone, of course, as can the analysis of sex roles. The basic appeal was that the Angels were not only very pretty but rather likable. One could cheer them on in their pursuit of malefactors, wildly firing their pistols but rarely hitting anyone, and one could also cheer them on in their efforts to play scenes that often crumbled into self-parody. "It seems like we did the same old script over and over," says Ladd, "dope runner, crazy family, etc." It was because of that guileless amiability that the show so easily survived the departure...