Word: habit
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Your review of Breaking the TV Habit [Oct. 11] ends with the author's advice, "To reconnect yourself to the world, disconnect the set." To shut-ins and the handicapped, the good provided by TV is endless. Through my imagination I have been to sports arenas, enjoying every game. The pleasure of turning the dial to find the outside world makes my nights and days normal...
...least we can do, us Jews and non-Jews committed to social justice, is make our vigorous opposition to the conduct of the Begin-Sharon government known to that government's representative. And, as citizens of the United States, which guaranteed the safety of Palestinian civilians in the Habit negotiations, we also must speak out. Please join us if you too believe in the quest for an equitable and just peace in the middle East. Joseph M. Schwartz Thomas Canel '83 H/R Students for Peace in the Middle East
...cover story: "You can find some American novelists and literary critics who can rival the quality and importance of his individual works. But no one can match him today for the variety of his endeavors and the discipline he brings to them." TIME, which is not in the habit of repeating itself, is happy to have John Updike on its cover once again...
...Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked on TV tend to underestimate their dependency. Wilkins' method of kicking the habit is like the old-fashioned way of losing weight: eating less. The first step, as with overcoming any addiction, is mustering the will to do so. During the first week of her four-week program, she advises keeping a detailed daily schedule of all viewing. Says she: "Everyone is astonished...
Although Breaking the TV Habit explores no new ground in its indictment of TV, it does provide a fresh, perhaps even workable scheme for curing TV addiction. Wilkins presents a distressing vision of Television Land as an endless series of television sets, holding an infinite series of smaller sets, endlessly mirroring them selves. It was TV Critic Michael Arlen who said that television connects viewers to nothing except the assumption of being connected to something. Wilkins' advice...