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...Theater: Paul Winfield, whose portrayal of the father in Sounder earned him an academy award nomination, plays the title role in It's Good to Be Alive: The Story of Roy Campanella. Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher whose career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident. This might be another soapy, tear-jerking rip-off of Brian's Song. But with Winfield around, it also stands a good chance of being worth watching. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
There is a certain charm and challenge in all this. The movie-produced by Robert B. Radnitz (Sounder)-scrupulous about matters of locale and decoration, careful to avoid subverting the circumstances of poverty into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper, which also serves from time to time as a residence for a pet pig and a cow. The surrounding mountain country has a lavish beauty, on which the Luther cabin is a canker...
...fire, here employs his unobtrusive and objective camera to excellent effect. Violence is seen as a constant element rather than a shocking intrusion on a black's existence. As such, its impact is all the more terrible. Finally, Cicely Tyson, whose muted fury was the driving force in Sounder, plays Miss Jane. Once again she demonstrates (even when handicapped by an old-age makeup that is literally too thick to believe) that she is a subtly skilled actress who can convey not just the history of a character in a gesture or an inflection, but an entire century...
...this unusual two-tiered arrangement, which Perot's associates Like to brag is an "innovative and very sound structure," was in danger because Walston continues to lose so much money. Strong but unconfirmable rumors were sweeping the securities business that Perot was seeking to merge Walston with another, sounder Wall Street firm. There were reports, too, that Perot's lieutenants had tried to sell some of Walston's branch offices to other Wall Street houses. Still another prevalent report was that some New York Stock Exchange members were urgently meeting to try to produce a plan...
...modifications by Stanford, Wexler, Terman et al are all based on the studies of Binet and Simon at the end of the last century. The original I.Q. testing technique was a careful attempt to replace the rather arbitrary methods of judging human potential by measurement on a sounder scientific scale. However Binet and Simon knew that their "measuring scale of intelligence," properly speaking, does not measure true intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, thus cannot be measured as linear surfaces but are rather a classification, "a hierarchy among diverse intelligences." They wrote: "intelligence, better mentality, encompasses many different faculties...