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DIED. SIDNEY KINGSLEY, 88, playwright; in Oakland, New Jersey. Kingsley's stage works were known for their flinty realism and social crusading. Dead End decried the slums of New York, inspiring New Deal public-housing legislation (forever tagging the young actors who appeared in the film version as "The Dead End Kids"). The 1933 Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White proselytized for abortion rights-and created much of the narrative vocabulary for all medical melodramas that followed. Kingsley's 1949 blend of Freud and fisticuffs, Detective Story, had a similar impact on the now ubiquitous, then trailblazing cops-and-crooks...
...that is evil in mankind, the result is a volume of grotesque moral confusion. The very intent of the book--to bring the Holocaust to seven-year-olds without being depressing--is absurd, and so Celebrations becomes the reductio ad absurdum of this genre of young people's realism: at once confused, dishonest, disturbing and false...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...
DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...
...show's realism gets an over-all positive rating. Most interviewees agree that there are too many cases moving in and out of the emergency room all the time, but that the drama is necessary to keep the show moving. Noah T. Zinkin, '96, says "I like the high-intensity of E.R. They show interesting medical cases." Pratima Gupta, '96, who watches with Zinkin, agrees that the reason that the show is so successful is that, unlike the soap-opera-esque Chicago Hope, "E.R. focuses mre on patients than on the private lives of doctors. It's interesting because they...