Word: sensitivityâ
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...realization. A typical song speaks of nakedness, "some are fancy on the inside, some are fancy on the outside"; a typical low-keyed show is devoted to a trip to a hospital or to the barber. In each case, the child is treated as a person of intelligence and sensitivity??unlike the audiences on most rival shows. "It is no secret that commercial children's TV has reached an all-time low," Rogers testified at Senate hearings last year. "At best, most of these programs are a waste; at worst, some of them encourage pathology...
...prostitute, he is not protesting against "the system" or the adult order; he is merely suffering from the way things are, always and everywhere, in a world of insufficient love. He is a self-conscious and sometimes absurd adolescent, but he is also a doomed human being of special sensitivity???not merely special, as Salinger might say, but Special. As such, he sets the theme for almost everything Salinger has written since Catcher. Most men know how to ignore, suppress or outwit the occasional suspicion that the world is really not to be borne?but the young...
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