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...their own trades (average wage: $50 to $60 a month) and to try anything. The WPA excavated Indian burial grounds in New Mexico, translated and indexed French and Spanish records in New Orleans, operated the bankrupt city of Key West, Fla. Unemployed writers like Conrad Aiken and John Cheever were put to work creating the American Guide series. Artists like Ben Shahn, Jackson Pollock and Alice Neel (see cover portrait) painted pictures to be displayed in schools and other public buildings. The WPA Federal Theater Project provided 12,000 jobs for novelties like Orson Welles' all-black version...
...most ambitious dramatic series in PBS history, American Playhouse is an attempt to deal with that old and irritating question: Why can't we do these things as well as the British? The answer, if the Cheever play is an indication of what follows, is that we can, if we are true to our own talents and our own idiom. That, at least, is what a consortium of four stations-in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and South Carolina-are trying to prove. With a budget of $12.9 million, they have filmed or taped programs all over the country...
...SHADY HILL KIDNAPPING by John Cheever. PBS, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. (E.S.T.). In his own way, John Cheever has been writing about life on earth for the past 50 years. He does not roam very far-usually no farther than one of the tonier suburbs of New York City-but his concerns are universal. He was a logical choice, then, to lead off what promises to be another notable PBS series: American Playhouse, a 25-week program of original works by American writers...
...widening range of fiction, poetry, history, biography, language courses and self-help texts is now available for the expressway bibliophile with a tape deck. In enlightened circles (and cloverleafs), the numbing AM-FM parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks, hobbyists and workers whose hands and eyes are otherwise engaged, are trying the best nonprescription tranquilizer available: Thoreau's Walden...
...with too many years at the anchor desk; and John Dos Passes lending The Forty-Second Parallel a hoarse intensity. Like some book publishers, Caedmon has noticed a surprising interest in the short story. Among its new bestsellers are Eudora Welly's warm rendition of Powerhouse and John Cheever's wry, precise delivery of The Swimmer...