Word: roberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanding and following up his leads, and his insights are in growing vogue among U.S. educators, psychologists and some parents. The most enthusiastic compare his work in significance to Freud's pioneering exploration of the emotions. What many people find so appealing about Piaget, as Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles points out, is that in contrast to psychoanalytically oriented researchers, he emphasizes "man the developing thinker rather than man the universal neurotic...
...Hollywood star (Inside Daisy Clover), and the harried young husband in Barefoot in the Park -the kind of guy who looks as if he parts his hair with a carpenter's level. Yet, partly as a result of his own sense of willful independence, major stardom has eluded Robert Redford. At least until now, with two Redford films in the theaters and a third coming...
...combines naivete and monomaniacal ambition. But his most impressive role is to come. In the new film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here!, he appears as a cold-blooded sheriff and gives his most powerfully sustained performance so far. This is plainly the first of what should be many Robert Redford vintage years...
...first offering, is any indication, children and adults alike will be stimulated, moved and entertained by a kind of drama almost never found on commercial television. J.T., which will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 13,* is an original story written by Jane Wagner and beautifully directed by Robert Young. It is, mercifully, different from most of the pap usually fed to the kiddies on Saturday mornings. Or to any age group at any time, for that matter. "We wanted a children's drama," explained Mike Dann, senior vice president for programming at CBS television. "But we didn...
Real and Horrifying. What they got instead was a realistic and sometimes horrifying account of J.T., a Negro boy played by Kevin Hooks, son of N.Y.P.D.'s Robert Hooks. J.T. is trying desperately to grow up in Harlem amidst peeling paint, dank buildings, rubbish-filled lots and a way of life that is guaranteed to turn any American Dream into a nightmare. He steals a transistor radio, then befriends a decrepit street cat. He is set upon by two older boys determined to steal the radio from...