Word: whatzit
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Alex Haley's discovery of his roots is not a "whatzit"-it is historical drama. It is an unfolding of the Haley family as Alex Haley learned it. Should the idea of a happy African childhood be so unappealing? Should the idea that black men accepted themselves as proud and great warriors, should the idea that perhaps slavery was not necessarily good for blacks come through-that is to be applauded...
Roots, Alex Haley's bestselling whatzit (not quite a novel, it is not quite history either) has come to television. Its unprecedented twelve-hour, eight-nights-in-a-row run begins on ABC Sunday, Jan. 23. It turns out to be a work of some historical interest, though surely not in the way its creators intended...
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