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...MANY WAYS, the sixties did demand precocious maturity. Along with the dilemmas of Dick Van Dyke, television gave us a living-room war, assassinations and demonstrations. There was a flood of information without experience, eulogies that briefly inspired, shocks that permanently numbed. A lot of idealism was distilled down to cynicism, and a lot of hope was replaced by despair...
...DYKE HOUSES, a lower-income housing project in New York City, had a crime rate in 1968 twice that of Brownsville Houses, a similar development across the street. Police and public housing officials assumed the difference showed that Van Dyke housed more "problem" families -- broken homes, mothers on welfare and so on. A comparison of tenant characteristics indicated that, on the contrary, the two groups were virtually identical. The answer, Oscar Newman contends in Defensible Space, can be found in the contrasting designs of the two projects, between Van Dyke's high-rise slabs and Brownsville's low, walk...
When "Love American Style" and a re-run of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" failed to provide the meaning of it all, (or at least a little solace) Terry Valenzuela, Phillipe Bennett and Eugene White turned to "The Partridge Family...
...Mobilia's Arnold--the social worker with his heart in his glasses--is perfect; and David Goldbloom, as Leo Herman, plays what amounts to a certifiable chipmunk with energy and a brilliant voice. Ira Fink's picture of Murray's brother bears an uncanny resemblance to Dick Van Dyke, and is probably better at hamming...
...series has taken on a new and more interesting dimension. Still pretty, single and thirtyish, Mary is no longer the Doris Day-Julie Andrews brand of antiseptic woman. This year's Mary is even a little naughty. On one recent show she kissed a boy friend (Jerry Van Dyke) rather soulfully while in the newsroom. On another she spent the night at some fellow's pad, to the vocal dismay of her mother (Nanette Fabray). Judging from this season's shows, the new chemistry may provide just the pick-me-up a weary viewer needs...