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ALTHOUGH the basic structure of TIME has never changed, there is great flexibility within the format. Over the years we have added many departments and dropped others as their time passed. Stories range from 20-line shorts to two-page essays, as well as the weekly five-or six-page cover articles. Occasionally, an event is of such extraordinary importance that it demands special treatment. This week, to mark what may well be the most momentous journey since 1492, TIME tells of Apollo 11's odyssey to the moon in a 14-page Special Supplement. It is our second...
...format of Oh! Calcutta! is rather like that of short short stories and cartoons strung together in the revue fashion of a supper-club show. Though the program does not say who wrote what, the playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Dan Greenburg, Jules Feiffer, John Lennon, Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard, Tynan himself, and others. Their playlets will doubtless enhance their royalties if not their reputations...
...children's programming: "Treat children as people," says Executive Producer George Heinemann, "and everything else will fall into line," Too many children's shows, he believes, are based on an adult's idea of what a child wants to see. They use the "age-old format of menace, threat, the chase and lots of action accompanied by noise to hold the youngsters' attention." The problem, he says, is that broadcasters of children's programs have not "grown up" with their audiences. "They still think kids are in the fairy-tale...
Cavett, and perhaps even the whole talk-show format, reached something of a high point last week when he set up a confrontation between Columbia University Radical James Simon Kunen, author of The Strawberry Statement (TIME, May 9), and Yale Student Tony Dolan, a conservative who occasionally contributes to the National Review. "I eat my share of apple pie," insisted Radical Kunen when he was attacked by Dolan for being something less than the all-American boy. And so the debate continued. Kunen: "There are no hungry conservatives." Dolan: Today's campus radicals operate with "noise instead of intelligence...
...Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the last-minute rescue of the innocent maiden from the ignoble savages. The somber account of the expropriation, humiliation and decimation of the Indians followed, together with the pleas of their chiefs...