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...Crockett) seems to be an ordinary young woman. She likes zipping around in her red convertible, blasting her radio, and crawling out from the clutches of her overprotective parents. Almost too coincidently, Diana stumbles across an article in a newspaper describing an unusual young man named Day Whittaker (John Walcutt) who claims that another person lives inside him and speaks through him. To Diana's surprise, the mysterious voice belongs to none other than her late grandfather, Daniel Montross. Quickly, Diana is drawn into a bizarre world in which the past is manifested in the present, insistently calling for recognition...
...large part of the film's quirky charm is due to Walcutt. He plays Day with an unconscious honesty that makes the character instantly likeable and believeable. Playing Day as something of an innocent, Walcutt's childlike spontaneity endears him to the audience, overriding the distance automatically created by the disturbing facts of his character's possession. Walcutt never overdramatizes Day's bizarre psychic circumstances, relying instead on determined, consistent understatement. Although Walcutt is cast as the film's romantic hero, he manages to avoid this restrictive stereotype, devoid as he is of the plastic good looks required...
...star, largely because her character is less fully developed than Day's. Given only a two-dimensional character to play, Crockett doesn't explore or experiment. While immediately appealing with her intense, sparkling eyes and her slyly curvaceous smile, she nevertheless lacks the vulnerability that marks Walcutt's performance...
...House; $3.95), a chilling comparison of Russian and U.S. textbooks that pegs the vocabulary of Ivan's typical first-grade reader at 2,000 words and Johnny's at 300, owing to the U.S. mystique of "vocabulary control." Equally indignant about U.S. reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics who blame it all on progressive education, without real knowledge of the subject, might check Lawrence A. Cremin's Transformation of the School (Knopf...
...blame children for being slow. As it stands, "research shows" that a child must attain a "mental age" of precisely 6½ before he is "ready" to read-even if common sense shows that many a child is dying to read at 4½. As a result, charges Critic Walcutt, 75% of U.S. youngsters do not read as well as they could, and "at least 35% of them are seriously retarded...