Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ACCIDENTAL FAMILY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation-comedy show, in which a Las Vegas-based comedian, Jerry Webster (Jerry Van Dyke), suddenly learns that he has custody-and all that entails-of his eight-year-old son, Sandy (Teddy Quinn). In the opener, Jerry's delight is tempered by the court's stipulation that he must raise the boy on a California farm, 300 miles from Las Vegas...
Although this passive element in Jarrell's verse seems against the American grain, he also possessed the American male's obsession with practical detail, the ritual and vocabulary of a job. His common man's delight in the way things work gave him a great technical advantage over his brother poets. This is especially notable in his war poems. Jarrell, a washed-out pilot (too old), was a dedicated pilot instructor. He wrote about war, says Poet Karl Shapiro, not as other poets "sweating out the war in uniform," but as a participant, armed with military expertise...
...true gathering of the real family life of America," says one mother, who might be quoting The Music Man line: "Gotta figger out a way t'keep the young ones moral after school!" The old find charm in the band-concert tradition and the young often find delight. "It's old enough to be new," says a middle-aged man, and a teen-ager adds: "You can't say just because something was started a long time ago that 60 or 70 years later it's old-fashioned...
Wayward Slobs. Many programmers are fractious fellows who delight in disdaining the button-down graces of corporate life, such as wearing a necktie to work. "We give management a hard time," says Programmer Armin Bendiner, 27, of Washington, D.C. "They're annoyed because they're at the mercy of us wayward slobs...
Unfortunately Miss Mills is tied to a long-faced husband (Hywel Bennett). He takes a bite out of life and looks like he's swallowing a rotten cucumber. But his brother (Murray Head) is a winner. He's the kind who eats experience up, swallows it with delight, licks his lips, and looks up smiling. It's hard to see why scriptwriter Bill Naughton didn't make the happy ending Miss Mills running away with her husband's brother instead of Miss Mills making love to her husband. But Mr. Naughton, like so many others, insists that cerebral...