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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For adults who long ago decided that the only TV drama worth watching was the evening news and the Super Bowl, a boon awaits in a minuscule series of specials called CBS Children's Hour. That's right-children's specials. If J.T., the first offering, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Children's Boon for Adults | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Friends and admirers of British Humorist Stephen Potter, who died in London last week at 69, will recognize Lifeman's rejoinder as the Canterbury Block, a devastating all-purpose ploy. "Yes, but not in the South," as Potter went on to explain in Some Notes on Lifemanship, is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Winning the Game of Life | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

"An intensely annoying ploy often used by doctors," Potter wrote, "is to treat Patient as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four." He will, for example, "refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps,' " and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Winning the Game of Life | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Years of music study, for one thing -at the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton, Brandeis and a year of graduate work at the Free University in Berlin. At Manhattan, Gelles studied under Michael Steinberg, a distinguished musicologist who now writes reviews for the Boston Globe. Like Steinberg, Critic Gelles insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critic at Large | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Not even the high professionalism of his Broadway production can disguise the fact that Thornton Wilder's Our Town was, is and always will be a humanities lecture with visual aids. The principal aids are the characters, who, ike the tables and chairs on the otherwise barren set, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Verities Revisited | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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