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THESE are the times that try men's souls, and they are likely to get much worse before they get better. It was not so long ago that the battle of the sexes was fought in gentle, rolling Thurber country. Now the din is in earnest, echoing from the streets where pickets gather, the bars where women once were barred, and even connubial beds, where ideology can intrude at the unconscious drop of a male chauvinist epithet. This week, marking the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the 19th Amendment granting women the vote, the diffuse, divided, but grimly determined...
...series introduced this year, only one is at all distinctive: Room 222, ABC's comedy drama about a black schoolteacher. The Bill Cosby Show (NBC) has also had its weeks, as have My World and Welcome to It (NBC), the sitcom about a cartoonist resembling Thurber, and The Bold Ones (NBC), the doctor-lawyer-police trilogy. But if anyone should take a new look at what TV has wrought this past season, it is the networks...
...avoid systems, we must act as if they don't exist; we must see how funny all that supposed logic is. We should wear lampshades on our heads, urinate in the kitchen, say "Fuck you" to any system that tries to encroach on our humanity. James Thurber would understand this kind of approach to life. And so would acid heads, people with good peripheral vision, and Lenny Bruce...
...World and Welcome to It might have been the only original comedy on TV this fall. The idea was to base the series on James Thurber's cartoons, using them to illustrate some of his fables and weave the make-believe into the life of a cartoonist played by William Windom. But as the barbs were dulled, what was left took on a distinct resemblance to Father Knows Best...
Monday, September 15 MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). William Windom (John Monroe) is a cartoonist-writer in this comedy series based on the work of Humorist James Thurber. Joan Hotchkis is his wife and Lisa Gerritsen is their daughter. Premiere...