Word: copperfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the '30s, America's tastes and talents have changed with the social whirlwinds, and David Copperfield may not have grown up with them. The M-G-M films, largest of a staggering assortment purchased by all three webs for fall release, are pre-1949. If they seem dated to an audience brought up on more sophisticated stuff, the networks can only hope to fall back on their nostalgic value...
...most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...
...Barber stands at the opposite pole from Huckleberry Finn or David Copperfield, and it may strike some people as more precious than priceless. But the reader can justly tell Author Reid, in the words of Squeaker, the learned rat: "It's universally granted that you're a most agreeable little boy-much above the average...
...Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Just So Stories, Ivanhoe, the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island. For the 13-year-olds and up: Lady of the Lake, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Lays of Ancient Rome, A Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, Westward Ho!, Lorna Doom, Kidnapped and Two Years Before the Mast...
...television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...