Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt they will want to put you safely into the Navy-the last place where the wars of modern Britain will be fought. We should like to see you in the real battlefield-in the Wolverbampton ghettos and the dreary bedsitting rooms of west London. They will give you a smart blue uniform and a stiff upper lip. We would rather give you a girl, a grin and a purpose in life...
...spent the next 14 years in charge of various Army golf courses and teaching generals to lock their elbows on the backswing. "I played a lot of golf, of course," says the ex-staff sergeant, "but lots of times I couldn't, because some colonel might see me and say 'What the hell is this?' " Pro Golfer Mason Rudolph had a similar reaction when, as an Army private in 1958, he lost the All-Army tournament to Moody by one stroke. Stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1967, Moody trounced three businessmen from nearby Killeen so regularly...
...night; all of it goes into a communal kitty. Now and then one of them buys a color TV set, but mostly they are socking away their new wealth and trying not to think too much about it lest it give them high-flown ideas. "I see things through lower-class eyes," says John. "If you sit around and think about all that money, you can never write a song about where you came from...
...world to shoot whatever subjects they choose. Yet that is exactly what NBC's Children's Theater did last April in one of TV's more imaginative experiments. The result was as remarkable as the concept: this week's television production of "As I See It," a stunningly perceptive child's-eye view of life...
Menace and Threat. The success of "As I See It"-and of the previous Children's Theater productions-stems from an approach that is all too rare in children's programming: "Treat children as people," says Executive Producer George Heinemann, "and everything else will fall into line," Too many children's shows, he believes, are based on an adult's idea of what a child wants to see. They use the "age-old format of menace, threat, the chase and lots of action accompanied by noise to hold the youngsters' attention." The problem, he says...