Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Bill Cosby is host to a group of children who have made the movies that are shown and discussed...
...Children's Books-Ages 7 to 14 GOODBYE, DOVE SQUARE, by Janet Mc-Neill (Little, Brown; $4.50); TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE, by John Rowe Townsend (Lippincott; $3.75); THE LIVERPOOL CATS, by Sylvia Sherry (Lippincott; $3.95). Three fine books about domestic adventures-including murder-set in the slums of English cities. The writing is clear and fast paced, without ever talking down to the reader. Americans may be stumped by an occasional term-perhaps not by "tea" for supper, or "chips" for French fries, but certainly by "scuffers" for cops...
...ENEMY, MY BROTHER, by James Forman (Meredith; $4.95). Three young Jewish survivors of a concentration camp make their way from Warsaw to an Israeli kibbutz only to be caught up in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A thoughtful book best suited to older children...
...society where children are conditioned to develop conceptually profane areas in their minds to accommodate words that in themselves are neutral, that sends missionaries to teach innocent people living comfortably in warm climates to be shameful of their bodies-which, paradoxically, are made in the image of God -it is refreshing to read of the new morality, which, new or old, was always concerned with the whole man, his intent, not merely his flesh. The days of busybodies and social cancers with boots up to their knees and collars up to their ears are hopefully numbered...
...frequently practiced a sort of "spiritual transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short story about children in English, certainly the best modern ghost story...