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This incident, says Professor Seymour Feshbach, chairman of the psychology department at U.C.L.A., occurred at a Los Angeles nursery school. Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But...
In her new book, Breaking the TV Habit (Scribners; $9.95), Wilkins describes the telltale signs and dangers of television addiction and offers a straightforward four-week program to break the habit without severe withdrawal symptoms. Addiction may be a metaphor, but the reality, according to Wilkins, is that among American...
Richard D. Wilkins Syracuse
Numbers tell part of the story. Since the late Roy Wilkins stepped down as executive director in 1977, membership in the N.A.A.C.P. has officially hovered around 400,000; some observers believe the actual figure may be as low as 250,000. Despite a recent increase (to $10) in its annual...
When Wilkins was in charge there was never any doubt as to who spoke for the N.A.A.C.P. Many blacks attribute the organization's current impotence to a struggle for power between Hooks and Margaret Bush Wilson, 63, a St. Louis lawyer who heads the N.A.A.C.P. board. "On almost every...