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...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
...live in a turn-of-the-century house where the dining room is bigger than the living room. This suggests that family meals together were once an important ritual. They provided cross-generational contact, practice in civil conversation and early experience in intimate socialization. ELIZABETH MURTAUGH Winnetka, Illinois...
...head of that agency in years, seems to be treading lightly around broadcasters on the children's-TV issue, possibly because he lacks support from his fellow commissioners: "I would like the sweet power of persuasion to be the key to success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would sit down and watch that program from beginning...
...there a common ground between Winnetka and Hollywood? No, not unless somebody is twisting the arms of the networks and local stations -- which, after all, are in the business of making money, not doing good deeds. "I don't think [the state of children's TV] has anything to do with any villainy on anybody's part," says ctw president David Britt. "It just has to do with the conventional wisdom that unless somebody makes us, it isn't in our economic interest to do educational programming for kids...
After the game, the city newspapers all made fun of Tripp's name. How preppy. How Grosse Point (or Scarsdale or Winnetka). How snooty. How Harvard...