Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe Show in 1959 and made his Broadway debut in 1964's Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory...
...result of their recent appearance on TV, Chicago's police will have to work hard to erase the impression that they are a gang of undisciplined bullies. Whatever their image, though, the fact is that Mayor Daley's cops are among the most carefully screened in the nation...
...effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge a more temperate attitude...
...questions, but the answers are hard to come by. Does the fault lie with strict parents or permissive teachers? Urban tensions or too much affluence? Last week Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College suggested that the answer to so much disaffection among the young is television. TV, said Hayakawa, addressing the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in his home town, is a "powerful sorcerer." It can bewitch children into becoming alienated and rebellious dropouts or even drug addicts. "Parents and relatives and teachers may talk to them, but the children find them sometimes censorious, often...
...teach, says Hayakawa, "that there is an instant, simple solution to all problems. Acid indigestion can be relieved with Alka-Seltzer; unpopularity can be overcome by using Ban; feelings of sexual inadequacy can be banished by buying a new Mustang, which will transform you into an instant Casanova." Even TV documentaries, "offer neat wrap-ups of complex events." Yet, "the world makes all sorts of demands the television set never told you about, such as study, patience, hard work, and a long apprenticeship in a trade or profession, before you may enjoy what the world has to offer...