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Fierce Alarums. The reading lessons sneaked into all this entertainment are based on a study of 40 different teaching systems and consultations with more than 100 experts. What survived for next week's première shows is a "cafeteria curriculum," including variations on both the Look-Say and Phonics approaches still competing for ascendancy among U.S. reading authorities (TIME, March 29). Inevitably, in the next few weeks, the proponents of these orthodoxies and others can be expected to raise fierce alarums. Herman Keld, a spokesman of the phonics school and one of the originators...
...Producer Tony Brown declared in a prologue last week, the series is devoted to "black journalism, which, in its search for the truth, may frequently run counter to white journalism. One thing that black people need is education that will enable us to love our beautiful black selves." The première was an admiring look at black-run Guyana...
...premières last week did not quite deliver on the promise of an "exciting new world of television." They did, however, amply demonstrate both the exhilarating possibilities and exasperating problems of public television. HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION THEATER, an occasional PBS special in the past, emerges this fall as a weekly feature. It capitalizes on first-rank actors who are between movies. Last week's premiere featured Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in Murray Schisgal's The Typists, a talky tragicomedy about two white-collar mediocrities spilling out the empty cup of their lives. The high night...
...opening program, Moyers covered the South Vietnamese election by talking in person to far-flung individual voters and wound up with an unexceptionable yet totally predictable and unprovocative piece of journalism. MASQUERADE, an anthology of improvisations from children's fables, was the major embarrassment of the PBS premières. The gentle whimsy and fantasy of the original tales withers in a broad, shrill production better suited to the Minsky circuit. Kids of all ages would call it a vulgar rip-off from the Story Theater (TIME, March 1), which has been far more sensitively translated...
Poisonous Stone Fish. NBC's Barrier Reef is yet another underwater adventure series. The first installment dealt with an attempted murder involving a poisonous stone fish. Another NBC show, Mr. Wizard, is back after a six-year hiatus. The première half-hour was concerned mainly with the elaborate preparations necessary for setting up a color-camera magnifier in order to view underwater life on a giant video screen. Science could be exciting. Not, unfortunately, on this show...