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...Daily Show - He wasn't satisfied telling off the Crossfire gang. Now Jon Stewart brings on schoolchildren to impersonate pundits like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly
...school playground and the Miyuki Bridge is exhibited in the museum he directs. It is after hours now, so he is free to move easily from display case to display case, using one exhibit or another to illustrate his story. During regular hours the museum is packed with schoolchildren in uniform, pressing their noses against the windows of the cases; chattering; some horseplay from the bigger boys. On display is all that became of Hiroshima once the bomb dropped, along with historical memorabilia such as the directive from Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander in chief of the U.S. Strategic...
...troubled by the Bomb, the initial shock having worn off. Like Lowell, Americans may have grown weary of talking, or dreaming, their extinction to death. The '50s and early '60s, the time of the horror film, were also the time of bomb shelters and "duck and cover" instructions to schoolchildren, who, like Kawamoto in the '40s, were taught to hide under desks in a bombing attack. The combination of fright and absurdity might have been enough to put the Bomb on the shelf for a while...
...these books and essays were being written, there were other diverse signs that the country was ready to look directly at the Bomb. Surveys begun in 1978 by John Mack, a psychiatrist at the Harvard Medical School, found that large percentages of schoolchildren experience a high degree of fear about impending nuclear war. Harvard's Robert Coles, the author of Children of Crisis, disputes such findings with research of his own. In Coles' studies the only children who worried inordinately about the Bomb were those whose parents were directly involved with antinuclear movements...
Suzuko Numata understands this effort. She is a tiny woman of 61 who, like Yoshitaka Kawamoto, was not far from the hypocenter when the atom bomb exploded. Like Kawamoto, Numata devotes much of her time to speaking to schoolchildren about her experiences on Aug. 6. She spends her private hours in her orderly, sun-filled house on a canal, tending a small garden bright with hydrangeas, peonies, red camelias, sweet daphne and amaryllis; and taking care of several cats and a large, cheerful doll that sits near the porch and whose outfits she changes according to the seasons. Numata smiles...