Word: robertses
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Kathy Roberts, a teacher at the Dandelion Pre-School in Cambridge and one of the organizers of the protest, said that the Power Rangers show is a topic that continually comes up during parent-faculty meetings.
"At meetings, people talk about it, and actually, children have been so influenced by it," Roberts said. "We decided to make a statement."
Parents and teachers approached students to discuss the violence in the television show, Roberts said, and the resultwas a surprisingly negative reaction to the PowerRangers from children who watch the show.
One sign of a civilization's slippage is the ease with which it blurs the line between tragedy and farce. Consider Justin Cartwright's Masai Dreaming (Random House; 287 pages; $23), a novel about the making of a Hollywood adventure movie with a Holocaust hook. The satirical possibilities are unnerving...
Rounding out the youthful roster were seniors Emilie Kao And Elizabeth Owens, junior Madge Roberts, sophomore Harlan Fabrikant and freshman Christina Nielsen and Suzanne Renere.