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...HENTOFF'S NEW BOOK on education is a gripping narrative, raising many fundamental question. But it fails to fully analyze the problems it puts forward, and offers only a few questionable solutions. After the Supreme Court found corporal punishment constitutional in one case, CBS commentator Eric Sevareid glibly commented that "kid-whacking" is "civilizing" in the proper adult hands. Hentoff springs off that comment to launch his book with a section entitled, "Does Eric Sevareid's Kid Get Hit in School?" Hentoff advocates making corporal punishment flatly illegal in the remaining 48 states where "culturally-sanctioned acts of violence against...
...Academy Award ceremonies, and if you haven't already, you're probably dying to see it. Take our world for it--don't. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter perfect impersonation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Best Actress award for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead...
...could have been greater. There was evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good, it's better than rumors, which are generally horrible." TV Newsman Eric Sevareid noted it was an "odd irony that it was the absence of publicity that drove Khaalis to his act as much as anything. He appeared maddened by the fact that the frightful slaughter of his family several years ago received so little attention...
...local news program is not much good. Everyone has known as much for years, of course; that was one of its charms-the small, endearing air of incompetence, of inadequacy that surrounded the characters. Now everyone on the staff except Ted Baxter, the anchorman with the mane of Eric Sevareid and the brain of a hamster, is fired. So ends the MTM show. The real Mary Tyler Moore will take some time off and eventually develop a new series...
...radio, except for the pictures and the visual presence of the anchorman. Much, therefore, turns on these two factors. CBS, which consistently leads in the ratings, has also long led in the excellence of its news-gathering staff. This strength began with Edward R. Murrow (Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid remain from that era), continued with a middle generation of Roger Mudd and Dan Rather, and has now resulted in a set of people as good as Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Richard Threlkeld and Lesley Stahl. CBS constantly comes up with better film and clear, informed reporting...