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...hardly surprising that The Waltons, a cosmeticized version of Depression childhood before the advent of the Now world, is one of childhood's favorite TV programs. Even for a fourth grader, nostalgia has value−particularly nostalgia for time before his birth...
Everything that could possibly go wrong with a show has gone wrong with this musical. The score sticks in your ear like wax. The lyrics consist of ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles...
...above all, a keeper of vows and custodian of tradition. As an eighth-grader, David Lawrence would walk four miles to the Buffalo public library to read the Congressional Record. That tide of small print did not intimidate him but carried him close to great men and events. He promised himself that he would go to Washington and convey to others the drama of the great speech, the Government report, the official text. At 21 he made another pledge: "Not to drink any whisky, any coffee or any tea, so as to try to keep in training...
Fully 15% of Omaha's 70,000 schoolchildren were on the drugs until doctors spread a warning that indiscriminate use could be dangerous. In Scituate, R.I., one doctor told a mother that her unruly second-grader did not need drugs, but "to please the school, why don't you give him them anyway?" She wisely refused-but many parents have not. Dr. Eric Denhoff, an early researcher in the field, estimates that at least half of the 6,000 children on amphetamines in Rhode Island should not be. In Seattle, one researcher found several children taking the drugs...
Driesell should know. A huckster most of his life, he owes his success to a unique mixture of sweat, salesmanship and show biz. Raised in Norfolk, Va., he won a varsity letter as a third-grader for managing the equipment of the Granby High team. At Duke University, he rode the bench as much as he played but figured it helped him become "a better coach 'cause it made me hungrier." After graduation, he coached the Granby High varsity for the princely salary of $4,000 and became a two-time state champion-in the sale of encyclopedias...