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...agree that there is too much sex and violence on TV [July 6]. But to return to the Ricardos and the Cramdens of I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners, as the Moral Majority's Dan Fore suggests, would be ridiculous...
Lucy Ricardo was a scheming, deceitful, bubble-headed idiot. Ralph Cramden was a pompous, irrational, loudmouthed, overbearing jerk. Are these the examples Mr. Fore would set before his children as good marriage partners and role models...
Other critics have different objections. William Fore, head of the communications commission of the National Council of Churches, has supported many boycotts and is a longtime opponent of televised sex and violence. He questions the use of boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better...
...group is not so much for limitation of TV shows, as it is to get shows that are of a high quality on TV." Most coalition spokesmen, however, appear to share Falwell's goal of making every program on the tube suitable for family viewing. For jxample, Dan Fore, Moral Majority's New York State chairman, says that TV should return to shows like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners. Some critics note that those shows, whatever their merits as sitcoms, were stereotyped in their presentation of husband and wife behavior in the household...
...heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale had struck the ship with his head under the larboard fore chains at the water's edge with such force as to shock every man upon his feet. The whale then getting under the ship's bottom came up under the starboard quarters. This gave the mate a fine opportunity to have killed him with a throw of his lance...