Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huge Creatures. Koch insists that any child can be attuned to poetry by any good teacher. He is now spreading that message by way of lectures and television (The David Frost and Today shows). NET will soon air a half-hour documentary filmed at P.S. 61. Though he has given up a regular schedule at the school (the program continues under Poet Ron Padgett), Koch likes to return every couple of weeks just for the fun of it. On each visit, he is startled to see how small the children really are: "From their poetry, I think of them...
...Frost a big cake for Elizabeth Bishop...
...sheaths of swords rattle As after years of endurance Brave men set out To tread upon the first frost of the year...
Live television can be quite lively, as viewers of the British version of David Frost's talk show discovered last week. In mid-interview with Yippie Jeer-leader Jerry Rubin, some 30 Yippie yahoos stormed the studio stage, screeching obscenities, knocking over equipment, squirting Frost with water and insults ("You are a plastic man. You have been dead for years"). The host retreated first to the audience, then to another studio to continue his showwhile switchboards lit up with calls from indignant Britons and TV officials asked each other how those awful Americans had managed...
Adds David Frost: "Americans tend to believe that everything foreign is better than anything American. But Sesame Street is the best children's program I've ever seen. It is true international TV. And it's a hit everywhere it goes." By next year, everywhere will include 50 countries, including Japan and South America and the Philippines. Foreign versions are being prepared; by 1971, it will have a side streeta program aimed at children seven to eleven, teaching reading and writing...