Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sir: Sesame Street [Nov. 23] is a spectacular spectrum of meaningful motivation. Where else can you sing along with Pete Seeger, find a goodly measure of mirth with the Muppets, and learn in spite of oneself? Thus the so-called low achievers are mentally massaged by the TV medium-so...
Sir: It's wonderful, having our children grow up as the Sesame Street generation. But must this season's programs move along so fast (reading, Spanish, mathematics, etc.)? I get the feeling that if my three-year-old misses one day of Sesame Street, he may not get...
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Sir: TIME giveth, and now TIME should take away. Katherine Graham is of course only 53 years old, not 63, as you wrote in your "Wives of Washington" cover story [Nov. 30].
Sir: Melvin Maddocks made a number of astute observations in his Essay "In Praise of Reticence" [Nov. 23]. However, I feel that there is something special about air travel that gets complete strangers together. Perhaps the God-above-gravity feeling of air flight tends to lower the barriers against strangers...