Sesame Street proves a hit with young viewers and educators
Critics praise Sesame Street as a landmark in educational television. CTW with Carnegie funding built a national program aimed at three to five year olds, using puppets and short segments to teach letters and concepts. By midseason its audience reached six to seven million, with inner city impact confirmed by surveys. A nationwide utilization program and bilingual Sesame Street Magazine extend reach, while export plans begin for 26 countries with foreign language productions.
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New York
N.Y. Times
Children’s Television Workshop
Joan Ganz Cooney
Carnegie Corporation
Sesame Street
Vermont
ETV
Workshop
CTW
Muppets
Educational
Princeton
N.J
Latin America
Africa
Middle East
Far East
CTV
Dealing a hip novel on dope culture by Crichton duo
A brisk review of The Berkeley to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues by Michael Douglas and Douglas Crichton. The book blends dope lore with a fast paced campus crime chase Boston to Berkeley and back. It argues for marijuana as a social issue and critiques middle class double standards. The author notes the drug tale is vivid and timely and may shock uptight lawmakers while entertaining readers.
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Boston
Michael Douglas
Alfred A. Knopf
New York
Our Great Land
Sam Goody’s
Berkeley
Michael Crichton
Douglas
Big Brother
Michael
Peter Harkness
Peter
Crichtons
Onions and Echoes of Berio and Mitch Miller
A jittery mix of reviews surveys Berio multi layer works with Sequenza and Chemins pieces, noting layered orchestration and onion metaphor. It moves to Mitch Miller sing along LPs era retrospectives and lists other genre compilations and notable singles from 1970s pop and rock artists.
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Delos Smith
New York
UPI
Luciano Berio
Onion
Chemins II
Chemins IE Ge
Berio
Walter Trampler
Juilliard Ensemble
London Symphony
Offal year for culture and the arts in 1970
A writer surveys culture in 1970 predicting government funding must save the arts or culture will die. He lampoons Nixon era arts support, notes the potential Army role, mocks illiterate film makers, and foresees a push toward live entertainment as power limits rise and TV becomes less dominant. He expects a print‑oriented generation and rising interest in books.
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Nixon
Laird
Mitchell
Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction List
A catalog of popular titles including Love Story by Erich Segal Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway Rich Man Poor Man by Irwin Shaw QB VII by Leon Uris God Is an Englishman by R F Delderfield The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie Caravan to Vacares by Alistair MacLean Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell The Serious Woman Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex by David Reuben Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer A White House Diary by Lady Bird Johnson Future Shock by Alvin Toffler The Greening of America by Charles Reich Dont Fall Off the Mountain by Shirley MacLaine Civilisation by Kenneth Clark Body Language by Julius Fast Papillon by Henri Charriere.
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Erich Segal
Ernest Hemingway
Irwin Shaw
Leon Uris
God IS
R. F. Delderfield
Elizabeth Goudge
Mary Stewart
Frankfurt
Agatha Christie
Vaccares
Alistair MacLean
Lion OF God
Taylor Caldwell
David Reuben
Third Reich
Albert Speer
White House
Lady Bird Johnson
Alvin Toffler
America
Charles Reich
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Sherlock Hemlock
Hemlock
Ernie
Bennington
Main ST. Bennington
DIAL
Triple ‘‘S
Grand Union
Vermont National
FDIC
Book Review
Geoffrey Chapman
Crichton
Brattleboro
Speaking of
Leonard Bernstein
New York Philharmonic
Columbia
Tchaikovsky
Melodiya-Angel
William D. Laffler
Mitch Miller
Miller
Mitch
New Christy Minstrels
Gregor
Minstrels
Atlantic
Aretha Franklin
Led Zeppelin
Crosby
Shelter
Mercury
Barrino Brothers
Boston Symphony
Tanglewood
Blood
Armagnac
Offal
Vietnam
Sharte Theatre
WED & Thurs
LPH
Nelson
United Press International
Shirley MacLaine
Kenneth Clark
Julius
Henri Charriere
KODAK
Main St
Greater Bennington
Chamber of Commerce
Firestone
Firestone Motor King
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