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AuthorKhimoy, Mark
AuthorKHINOY, ANDREW
AuthorKhinoy, Mark
AuthorKIBEL, ALVIN C.
AuthorKIHSS, PETER
AuthorKILBY, PETER
AuthorKILLINGSWORTH, MARK R.
AuthorKILPATRICK, WILLIAM H.
AuthorKILSON, MARTIN
AuthorKIMMEL, ARTHUR
AuthorKIMMEL, MICHAEL S.
AuthorKing, Bertha Hale
AuthorKing, Cameron H.
AuthorKing, Gene
AuthorKING, JUDSON
AuthorKING, LAWRENCE T.
AuthorKING, MARTIN LUTHER Jr.
AuthorKing, Murray
AuthorKing, Murray E.
AuthorKING, RICHARD
AuthorKING, RICHARD H.
AuthorKING, SAM ROMER, LAWRENCE T.
AuthorKingdon, Frank
AuthorKINGSBURY, READ
AuthorKINGSBURY, ROBERT
AuthorKINGSBURY, ROCER
AuthorKINGSBURY, ROGER
AuthorKINGSRURY, ROGER
AuthorKINGSTON-MANN, DAN N. JACOBS PETER J. STAVRAKIS SETH SINGLETON DAVID W. HUNTER CHARLES TIMBERLAKE DA
AuthorKINTNER, WILLIAM R.
AuthorKipp, Morjorie
AuthorKirchheimer, Otto
AuthorKIRK, DONAI.D
AuthorKIRK, DONAID
AuthorKIRK, DONALD
AuthorKIRK, ELIAHU SALPETER \ DONALD
AuthorKIRK, JONATHAN COTTIN \ RICHARD L. WALKER \ MICHAEL BERGER \ DONALD
AuthorKIRK, RAY ALAN \ JOHN MANDER \ DONALD
AuthorKIRK, THOMAS LAND / DONALD
AuthorKIRKLAND, LANE
AuthorKirkpatick, George R.
AuthorKIRKPATRICK, G. R.
AuthorKirkpatrick, George R.
AuthorKirkpatrick, Jeane J.
AuthorKIRSHENBAUM, BINNIE
AuthorKISS, GEORGE P. BROCKWAY / LASZLO T.
AuthorKISSINGER, HENRY
AuthorKISSINGER, HENRY A.
AuthorKISSLINGER, JERRY
AuthorKITMAN 22, MARVIN
AuthorKITMAN, JAMIE
AuthorKITMAN, MARVIN
Paid articleFox's Palin Factor (March 2010)
On Television Fox’s Palin Factor By Marvin Kitman A recent poll found that the most widely trusted name in television news today is the Fox News Channel, current home of onetime...
Paid articleWhen I Was a Mad Man (May 2009)
On Television When I Was a Mad Man By Marvin Kitman FOR THE last three years, Mad Men (AMC, Sundays, 10:30 P.M. EST) has been the hottest TV drama in my intellectual circle. Everybody talks...
Paid articleOn Television (November 2008)
On Television Godzilla vs. King Kong By Marvin Kitman DECEMBER was media mogul month in publishing.Two major Christmas gifts were put out for media mogul fans like myself—and one of...
Paid articleOn Television (May 2009)
On Television How Reality Works By Marvin Kitman IRECENTLY READ in the New York Times that the hottest thing in Indonesia is reality television. Indonesian Idol and a host of...
Paid articleOn Television (March 2008)
On Television Birth of a Nation By Marvin Kitman I HAVE ALWAYS been in awe of David McCullough. I especially admire his sales. The same could be said, I guess, of Filene’s Basement....
Paid articleWar and Peace and Me (November 2007)
Off Television War and Peace and Me By Marvin Kitman Book One ONE OF the by-products of my years as a TV critic, a profession I began here in 1967, was my becoming functionally...
Paid articleOn Television (March 2007)
On Television The Fa k e News Wars By Marvin Kitman PLAYING WITH my remote the other Sunday night, I stumbled upon the Fox News Channel. The President was speaking to us from the...
Paid articleThe Tube Effect (January 2006)
On Television The Tube Effect By Marvin Kitman Television is so good today because of my work at The New Leader from 1967 to 1987. Thanks to my 221 columns, comedies are funny, dramas are...
Paid articleClip My Coupon (December 1990)
On Television CLIP MY COUPON BY MARVIN KITMAN Ihaven't been appearing regularly in these pages over the past few years (pedants would say I haven't been appearing at all). So I think I owe...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1986)
On Television A SURPRISING SEASON BY MARVIN KITMAN There are so many good new shows this fall season, I sometimes think I've lost my mind. Or I've died and gone to heaven. Some of the sitcoms...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1986)
On Television PAM EWING'S BAD DREAM BY MARVIN KITMAN MY MOUTH IS still wide open in disbelief at the denouement of the Dallas (CBS, Friday, 9:00 p.m. EST) cliff-hanger revealed the night of...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1986)
On Television ANCHORS AWRY BY MARVIN KITMAN The hottest weapon in the network news wars this summer has been the exciting new studio-newsroom on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. You would be...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1986)
On Television BLUES AT THE CBS MORNING NEWS' BY MARVIN KITMAN ONE OF MY favorite pastimes, next to sleeping late when I should be watching the network TV offerings, is reading about all the...
Paid articleBlurring the Type (March 1986)
On Television BLURRING THE TYPE BY MARVIN KITMAN There was a violent reaction last summer to the launching of the TV magazine called (after the location of CBS News' headquarters) West 57th....
Paid articleOn Television (February 1986)
On Television ACTING YOUR AGE BY MARVIN KITMAN OLD Brown Eyes is back. You might say Mary Tyler Moore has had a kind of double comeback. She returned last December in her first new situation...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1986)
On Television SEEING MURROW NOW BY MARVIN KITMAN Anything goes on television, apparently, as long as it is designated a doeudrama. Earlier this season Mussolini: The Untold Story, starring George...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1985)
On Television ANOTHER DYNASTY BY MARVIN KITMAN Boob-tube history was made in November the night the Carringtons of Denver met the Colbys of Los Angeles in a special two-hour run-on of Dynasty...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1985)
On Television SPIELBERG'S AMAZING DISGRACE BY MARVIN KITMAN The first of Steven Spielberg's A mazing Stories on NBC (Sunday, 8:00 p.m. EST) wasn't very amazing. The other early installments of...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1985)
On Television STYLISH VIOLENCE BY MARVIN KITMAN This past summer was Miami Vice. Oddly enough, I discovered that NBC was doing the reruns on my local WNBC-TV news program, Live at Five. Every...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1985)
On Television A NEW CHINA LOBBY BY MARVIN KITMAN I GREW UP at a time when China was a dangerous subject. One week a scholar specializing in the Middle Kingdom would be denounced as a Communist...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1985)
On Television NATURE WALKS BY MARVIN KITMAN Have you ever noticed how much walking is done on television? Phil Donahue is always strutting around like a nervous peacock on his syndicated talk...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1985)
On Television WESTY'S LAST STAND BY MARVIN KITMAN How stirring it was to see General William C. Westmoreland, commander of our Vietnam War forces, on all the local evening news shows February...
Paid articleBlown Away (December 1984)
On Television BLOWN AWAY BY MARVIN KITMAN The beginning of Threads, the latest nuclear-disaster TV movie, was so upsetting I thought I'd start paying the bills. Since I was already miserable, I...
Paid articleMixed Returns (November 1984)
On Television MIXED RETURNS BY MARVIN KITMAN The big loser on election night was not Walter Mondale, as most people have been led to believe, but Dan Rather of CBS News. The nation's leading...
Paid articleLost in the Sand (September 1984)
On Television LOST IN THE SANDS BY MARVIN KITMAN Nothing Abba Eban narrates on Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Monday, 9 p.m. EST), WNET/13's monumental nine-part miniseries airing October...
Paid articleOn Television (August 1984)
On Television SEASONAL SMOG BY MARVIN KITMAN Several weeks before the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, I read that the British polo team was thinking of sending over oxygen masks for its...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1984)
On Television DOUBLE TROUBLE AT CBS BY MARVIN KITMAN Everybody loved The American Parade—until it went on the air last March 27, at 8 p.m. According to the full-page ads CBS took out, the day was...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1984)
On Television PEPSI'S HOT NEWS BY MARVIN KITMAN Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson! So go my notes of the Grammy Show on CBS last...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1984)
On Television YEAR OF THE MINIS BY MARVIN KITMAN Lace, ABC's five-hour minise-ries based on the popular novel of the same name by Shirley Conran, was shown the evenings of February 26-27. It told...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1984)
On Television DIAL 900 FOR PRESIDENT BY MARVIN KITMAN The most fascinating television piece about the Democratic Presidential race that I have seen so far was aired last January 14 on NBC. It...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1984)
Onlelevision M-TV TORTURE BY MARVIN KITMAN One of the advantages of having cable is access to M-TV. This means you can be culturally aware. More people were talking and writing about the channel...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1983)
On Television IN DEFENSE OF THE DAYAFTER' BY MARVIN KITMAN The most controversial television show of the year, in case you forgot, ran on ABC on the night of November 20. Herewith a few thoughts...
Paid articleMacneil/Lehrer:Twice As Long, Half as Good (October 1983)
On Television MACNEIL/LEHRER: TWCE AS LONQ HALF AS GOOD BY MARVIN KITMAN I don't understand the scheduling of the Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) new MacNeil/LehrerNewshour, launched last...
Paid articleReductio Ad Absurdum (September 1983)
On Television REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BY MARVIN KITMAN THE LATEST thing this fall on the planet Los Angeles, where all the new shows come from, is "high concept programing " My spies tell me high...
Paid articleTrash on the Beach (August 1983)
On Television TRASH ON THE BEACH BY MARVIN KITMAN YOU'RE RIGHT-The Hamptons, that festival of miserable TV on ABC this summer-smelled And I don't mean from the sea or the fish The five-part...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1983)
On Television THE VIDEOTAPE TANOLE BY MARVIN KITMAN loved the latest development in the so-called Sony-Betamax case, the most controversial item on the Supreme Court docket this past term The...
Paid article'60 minutes' in the Dock (June 1983)
OnTelevision 60 MINUTES' IN THE DOCK BY MARVIN KITMAN was fascinated by Dr Carl A Galloway's recent $30 million slander suit against Dan Rather, CBS News and 60 Minutes m Los Angeles The doctor...
Paid articleNazis From Outer Space (May 1983)
On Television NAZIS FROM OUTER SPACE BY MARVIN KITMAN T he most extraordinary and provocative minisenes of the year, I could tell from the way NBC was promoting it, would be V "The Visitors are...
Paid articleTedium Transcended (April 1983)
On Television TEDIUM TRANSCENDED BY MARVIN KITMAN I envy those who found The Winds of War truly boring. What exciting lives they must lead, tube-wise. Maybe they have special sets that give them...
Paid articleHot Lips' Last Kiss (March 1983)
On Television HOT LIPS' LAST KISS BY MARVIN KITMAN Just as Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire had its final chapter, M*A*S*H came to an end one night last...
Paid articleLights, Camera, Raegan (February 1983)
On Television LIGHTS, CAMERA, REAGAN BY MARVIN KITMAN President Reagan delivering the State of the Union Message on all three major networks last January 25 generated the biggest cable TV...
Paid articleOdd Couples (January 1983)
On Television ODD COUPLES BY MARVIN KITMAN The current season has been another letdown. That is hardly news, 1 realize, yet before it began there was reason for hope. Take Bob Newhart's latest...
Paid articleThe Unkept Promises of Spring (November 1982)
On Television THE UNKEPT PROMISES OF SPRING BY MARVIN KITMAN It happens every year. In spring, all the upcoming series announced on the West Coast for the fall round of premieres sound great, at...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1982)
On Television THE CALIFORNIA SYNDROME by marvin kitman Last year I blamed the terrible decline of television on the climate in Los Angeles. Without different seasons there can be no creativity,...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1982)
On Television THE SNOOZE NEWS WAR BY MARVIN KITMAN The first salvos in the snooze news war began last July 5, with NBC News Overnight (1:30-2:30 a.m.), starring Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee....
Paid articleTruth and Balance at CBS News (August 1982)
Onlelevision TRUTH AND BALANCE AT CBS NEWS BY MARVIN KITMAN Xhave a few comments on a recent Star Chamber proceeding at CBS News On trial was a CBS Reports documentary presented the night of...
Paid articleCable Hopping (June 1982)
U OnTelevision CABLE HOPPING BY MARVIN KITMAN 13 JLa^oy, am I thrilled with my new cable system. I now have multichannel capability. It takes me 36 switches of the dial before I can say there's...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1982)
On Television CANCELING QUALITY BY MARVIN KITMAN AS WE ALL know, when TV shows die they go to the happy hunting ground in the sky—up in the ozone where The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Julia and Fay...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1982)
On Television REVISITING 'BRIDESHEAD REVISITED' BY MARVIN KITMAN PEOPLE DIDN'T watch Brideshead Revisited as much as you might think from all the newspaper raves and early blockbuster ratings. On...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1982)
On Television A TALE OF SECOND CITIES BY MARVIN KITMAN THERE ARE now 10 hours per week of "hip' sketch comedy on American television late at night When you add the reruns of Saturday Night Live...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1982)
On Television WHY 'TOMORROW' IS YESTERDAY BY MARVIN KITMAN TOM SNYDER'S final Tomorrow show the night of December 17—number 1,700 in a series that lasted eight and a half years on NBC—was a...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1981)
On Television THE SOAP SICKNESS BY MARVIN KITMAN The television wedding of the century did not join Prince Charles and Lady Di, or even Mork and Mindy. It linked Luke and Laura (Anthony Geary and...
Paid articleMorning Mistakes at CBS (November 1981)
On Television MORNING MISTAKES AT CBS BY MARVIN KITMAN I love Charlie Kuralt on television. He is a man of unusual intelligence, a sensitive human being and a very good reporter with an eye for...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1981)
On Television WASTELAND PREVIEWS by marvin kitman I^have been staggering around like one of the living dead ever since subjecting myself to the preview tape cassettes of the new TV shows. Besides...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1981)
On Television TINKERING AT NBC by marvin kitman In the 1960s, an advertising agency fashioned a slogan for a whiskey company client by paraphrasing President Lincoln's remark to his Secretary of...
Paid articleDirty Linen (June 1981)
On Television DIRTY LINEN BY MARVIN KITMAN One has to admire Billie Jean King's courage in finally confessing her lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett to Barbara Walters and the rest of us 20-30...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1981)
OnTelevision OUTPSYCHING THE NIELSENS BY MARVIN KITMAN THE MOST amazing story of the year in television was the recent news that from July 1978 to July 1980 top ABC executives Fred Pierce and...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1981)
OnTelevision ANCHORS AWAY BY MARVIN KITMAN N ^ o issue ln broadcasting today is more important than how long CBS will stay with Dan Rather Thebettingis that he won't last more than a year in...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1981)
On television HITLER'S GREATEST VICTORY BY MARVIN KITMAN A. kn amazing thing happened in The Bunker, the blockbuster Anglo-American/David Susskind/Time-Life/ SFP France made-for-TV movie that...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1981)
OnTelevision SEARCHING FOR THE SECRET OF 'DALLAS' BY MARVIN KITMAN T he biggest preoccupation of TV programmers this season has been searching for a new Dallas, which has come to represent El...
Paid articleTasteless, From New York (January 1981)
On Television TASTELESS, FROM NEW YORK BY MARVIN KITMAN The first episode of the new Saturday Night Live on NBC this season (November 15, 11:30 p.m. EST) was a total disaster, the worst thing to...
Paid articleOn Television (December 1980)
OnTelevision CANCELING THE ELECTIONS by marvin kitman T. he height of network irresponsibility during the 1980 Presidential campaign was the ABC News telephone poll immediately following the...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1980)
On Television PLArING FOR BUCKS BY MARVIN KITMAN o ne of the television season's more intriguing mysteries is how CBS came up with Vanessa Redgrave for the role of Fania Fenelon in the three-hour...
Paid articleIn Praise of Warlords (October 1980)
On Television IN PRAISE OF WARLORDS BY MARVIN KITMAN When I first heard the news that the blockbuster opening event of the 1980-81 TV season would be a 12-hour Japanese movie without subtitles...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1980)
On Television CONVENTIONAL BOREDOM BY MARVIN KITMAN The poll takers-explaining Ronald Reagan's sudden surge ahead in the Presidential race following the Republican Convention in Detroit last...
Paid articleBack at the Raunch (July 1980)
On Television BACK AT THE RAUNCH BY MARVIN KITMAN THE QUESTION EVERYONE Seems to be asking this summer is "Who shot J.R.?" Except, of course, my readers here, who are probably still wondering,...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1980)
OnTelevision PBS' ARABIAN NIGHT by marvin kitman T JL. he night of May 12, when we finally got to see Death of a Princess on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), will go down in television...
Paid articleBring on Steve Allen (May 1980)
On Television BRING ON STEVE ALLEN BY MARVIN KITMAN When The Big Show (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.) had its premiere the night of March 4, it unveiled an enormous stage half a football field long with...
Paid article'United States' Needs You (April 1980)
On Television UNITED STATES' NEEDS YOU BY MARVIN KITMAN witnessing the start of a new TV series is a bit like going to the reference room of New York's 42nd Street library. Just as you never know...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1980)
Onlelevision IF I HAD MY RATHERS. by marvin kitman T JL. he announcement that Walter Cronkite is retiring next year is the worst news I have heard since Pearl Harbor. I've made a lot of fun of...
Paid articleOn Television (December 1979)
OnTelevision PYTHON'S PROGENY BY MARVIN KITMAN ^^'m one of those people who enjoyed Life of Brian, the notorious Biblical epic by Monty Python's Flying Circus. The boys were, I thought, no more...
Paid articleHere's Looking at Cheever (December 1979)
On Television HERE'S LOOKING AT CHEEVER BY MARVIN KITMAN October and November, public television presented dramatizations of three John Cheever stories about the emptiness of life in the suburbs...
Paid articleThe Cruelest Season (November 1979)
On Television THECRUELEST SEASON BY MARVIN KITMAN Although it already seems like ancient history, only a few weeks have passed since the three networks presented their fall lineups with trumpets...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1979)
On Television IN MEMORIAM by marvin kitman None of the new TV shows are as good as last season's Supertrain, which NBC recalled after a few episodes. That program was really exciting, at least...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1979)
OnTelevision HOW TOM SNYDER GREW ON ME BY MARVIN KITMAN TOM snyder and I first met in 1974, at a press conference held in New York's Plaza Hotel He was there to be introduced as the anchorman of...
Paid articleMessing with the Muppets (July 1979)
On Television MESSING WITH THE MUPPETS BY MARVIN KITMAN The second major comedy disappointment of the past season was The Muppets Go Hollywood, presented on CBS the night of May 16 (Freddy...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1979)
OnTelevision KEEPING UP WITH AMERICA by marvin kitman T JL* oday on NBC isn't what it was yesterday, and I find that as disquieting as seeing the sun rise in the west. Until last December, the...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1979)
Onlelevision WHY JOHNNY CANT LEAVE BV MARVIN KITMAN w ? ? hen Johnny Carson announced last month that he wanted to leave NBC's Tonight Show in September—or earlier, whichever came first— it was...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1979)
On Television PRAISING CAESAR BY MARVIN KITMAN It's not easy to confess that for most of my life, I have secretly hated Shakespeare. It's not nice for an important critic of the most important...
Paid articleNA-NO, NA-NO (January 1979)
On Television NA-NO NA-NO BY MARVIN KITMAN The surprise hit of the TV season is Mork and Mindy (ABC, Thursday, 8 p.m.). It is one of the few shows intelligent people are not ashamed to admit they...
Paid articleThe Age of Plastic (January 1979)
On Television THE AGE OF PLASTIC MARVIN KITMAN People, "starring, as CBS put it, Phyllis George, was cancelled on November 9. (With the new fall shows being kicked off the air faster than you...
Paid articleLost in Space (November 1978)
On Television LOST IN SPACE by marvin kitman the new television season may be the product of a sick mind, for I have been suffering from some kind of virus since the day in early September when I...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1978)
OnTelevision BOLEN'S REVENGE BY MARVIN KITMAN met Lin Bolen only once, during her reign as the first woman head of daytime programming at NBC (1974-5). We were both guests on Barbara Walter's...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1978)
On Television NEWMAN AT NBC by marvin kitman IL^ast February, the television world was stunned by the news that Fred Silverman of ABC, the number one network, had defected to become president of...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1978)
On Television TABLOID VISION BY MARVIN KITMAN Most tv magazines have print counterparts. Thus People, a show CBS is scheduled to launch in September, will be patterned after Time Incorporated's...
Paid articleTRIVIA AND THE HOLOCAUST (May 1978)
On Television TRIVIA AND THE HOLOCAUST BY MARVIN KITMAN On that Monday night (February 27) when NBC began running Part III of Loose Change, instead of the regularly scheduled Part II, I couldn't...
Paid articleTV'S Sex Problem (March 1978)
OnTelevision TV'S SEX PROBLEM by marvin kitman T he night of February 9 on NBC, James went all the way with a Swedish exchange student in what had to be the most widely discussed and deplored...
Paid articleThe Silvermanizing of TV (February 1978)
On Television THE SILVERMANIZING OF TV BY MARVIN KITMAN ON PREVIOUS occasions in this space, I have mentioned Fred Silverman en passant, as they say in chess But since Freddy has been...
Paid articleEric Severalsides Signs Off (January 1978)
On Television ERIC SEVERAL SIDES SIGNS OFF BY MARVIN KITMAN On the night of November 30, after 38 years on CBS News radio and television broadcasts, Eric Seva-reid was given three minutes and 11...
Paid articleGlub, Glub, Glub (November 1977)
On Television GLUB, GLUB, GLUB BY MARVIN KITMAN Not since the Ty-D-Bol Man sailed the seas in the early 1970s has there been such an obsession with water as a source of comedy in broadcasting....
Paid articleNew Angel in Town (October 1977)
On Television NEW ANGEL IN TOWN BY MARVIN KITMAN How many Charlie's angels can dance on the head of a pin?" a) four; b) two; c) 19; d) eight is enough; e) don't know; f) don't care. That was the...
Paid articleWashington a Clef (September 1977)
On Television WASHINGTON a CLEF BY MARVIN KITMAN ABC thought it had another Roots on its hands with the television version of John Ehrlichman's novel The Company—retitled Washington Behind Closed...
Paid articleWhen La Babwa Metfidel (August 1977)
On Television WHEN LA BABWA METFIDEL BY MARVIN KITMAN AS Fidel Castro kicked off his campaign to undermine the American people through the medium of their own TV sets the night of June 9, the...
Paid articleThe Royal Treatment (July 1977)
On Television THE ROYAL TREATMENT BY MARVIN KITMAN The 25th anniversary celebration of Queen Elizabeth's rise to power began in the colonies on May 31 with The Silver Jubilee Gala, a BBC show...
Paid articleNixon and Frost Marvelous! (June 1977)
On Television NIXON AND FROST? MARVELOUS! BY MARVIN KITMAN Not since Nikita Khrushchev faced David Susskind on Open End in the 1960s had there been the kind of excitement about two towering...
Paid articleThe Critics Strike Out (May 1977)
OnTelevision THE CRITICS STRIKE OUT BY MARVIN KITMAN I did not vote in the first TV Critics Circle Awards (CBS, April 11) because they didn't nominate my favorite show, Animals, Animals. Instead,...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1977)
On Television RESPECTFULLY YOURS BY MARVIN KITMAN An open letter to Walter H. Annen-berg, Former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Publisher of leading cultural journals (TV Guide), Founder...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1977)
On Television TOYING WITH THE TRUTH by MARVIN KITMAN Aprize for the most deceitful title of the year should be awarded to NBC's Big Event show of February 6: "Tail Gunner Joe" was a...
Paid articleA Mighty Miniseries (February 1977)
On Television A MIGHTY MINISERIES BY MARVIN KITMAN one always worries about television's fidelity to the novels it turns into miniseries. I fret, for example, that ABC, purchasers of Friendly...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1976)
On Television A FORMAT FOR THE 1980 DEBATES BY MARVIN KITMAN A number of mistakes were made in the presentation of the Presidential debates, the four-part mini-series (September 23-October 22)...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1971)
On Television THE YEAR OF THE RAT AND THE NOVEL BY MARVIN KITMAN The biggest trend in television this fall will undoubtedly be the cancellation of the new shows that were advertised throughout...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1976)
On Television THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT BY MARVIN KITMAN The other night John Chancellor or David Brinkley mentioned the word "Republican" on the NBC evening news, and suddenly I...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1976)
On Television COSTLY COSTUMED KITSCH BY MARVIN KITMAN For no discernible reason, The Adams Chronicles ended suddenly last April 13, midway through Charles Francis Adams' career as an...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1976)
On Television NOVEL SOAP OPERA BY MARVIN KITMAN I was hostile to the hit series based on Irwin Shaw's literary classic Rich Man, Poor Man when it began on ABC February 1. The format was annoying:...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1976)
On Television FORD VS. THE FONZ by marvin kitman On Tuesday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m., millions of Americans were sitting by their televisions waiting for the appearance of Arthur Fonzarelli on...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1976)
On Television MARY HARTMAN FACES LIFE BY MARVIN KITMAN For me, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was the underground sensation of the television industry last September. I had been unhinged by two...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1976)
On Television THE AGONY AND THE IDIOCY BY MARVIN KITMAN THE NETWORKS used to give a series 26 weeks to prove itself. Maybe they were influenced by all those oil wells pumping away next to the...
Paid articleOn Television (December 1975)
On Television MONDAY MORNING JOURNALISM BY MARVIN KITMAN I had come to think of Lawrence Spivak as sort of the Captain Kangaroo of public affairs programming, without the Captain's warm smile....
Paid articleOn Television (October 1975)
On Art THE SOVIETS' MEDIA EVENT BY VIVIEN RAYNOR Though billed as an "unprecedented" loan from the Soviet Union, the exhibition of European and Russian paintings at New York's Knoedler & Co....
Paid articleMEDIOCRE MIRACLES (September 1975)
On Television MEDIOCRE MIRACLES BY MARVIN KITMAN The most interesting thing I saw on television this summer was the parting of the Red Sea. This was the highlight of the fourth episode of Moses...
Paid articleThe Five-Minute Minute (August 1975)
On Television THE FIVE-MINUTE MINUTE BY MARVIN KITMAN The average television editorial is usually one minute long, but it seems to last five minutes. Replies to the editorial-also usually one...
Paid articleIMPROVING THE ART OF SELF-PRAISE (July 1975)
On Television IMPROVING THE ART OF SELF-PRAISE BY MARVIN KITMAN "Nothing reveals more about the insecurity of many creative people than the avalanche of awards that sprout on television like a...
Paid articleFLYING WITH 'MONTY PYTHON' (June 1975)
On Television FLYING WITH 'MONTY PYTHON' BY MARVIN KITMAN A few Monty Pythons ago-the way I count the days since Monty Python's Flying Circus began appearing on public television is Friday,...
Paid articleFEELING BAD ABOUT 'FEELING GOOD' (May 1975)
On Television FEELING BAD ABOUT 'FEELING GOOD' BY MARVIN KITMAN The most widely publicized important public television experiment of the 1974-75 season, Feeling Good, quietly left the air last...
Paid articleBLAIR LEAVES THE AIR (April 1975)
On Television BLAIR LEAVES THE AIR BY MARVIN KITMAN NBC News' Today devoted its entire two hours the morning of March 14 to retiring newscaster Frank Blair. It was the first time the nation's...
Paid articleHistory By The Minute (March 1975)
On Television HISTORY BY THE MINUTE BY MARVIN KITMAN On july 4, 1974, television history was made. The first in a widely-hailed series of 732 documentaries on a single subject, the American...
Paid articleThe Ddreyfuss affair (February 1975)
On Television THE DREYFUSS AFFAIR BY MARVIN KITMAN Robert Dreyfuss has picked up his last bass fiddle. Never more will he say "excuse me" on Saturday nights when he bumps into an inanimate...
Paid articleCutting for Cleanliness (December 1974)
On Television CUTTING FOR CLEANLINESS BY MARVIN KITMAN On the night of November 16, for the first time in the annals of television film-censorship, the director of an edited movie came on the air...
Paid article'Tis the Season to be Married (November 1974)
On Television 'TIS THE SEASON TO BE MARRIED BY MARVIN KITMAN Corporal Klinger of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Korea married Laverne Esposito of Toledo, Ohio, on the M*A*S*H...
Paid articleWhat Ails doc Welby (October 1974)
On Television WHAT AILS DOC WELBY BY MARVIN-KITMAN A number of ABC affiliates canceled the October 8 episode of Marcus Welby, M D (Tuesday, 10 p m ) because it told the old...
Paid articleA Capitol Show! (September 1974)
On Television A CAPITOL SHOW! by marvin kitman It is now perfectly clear that the only sound objection to televising an impeachment proceeding is that it takes a man away from his work My income...
Paid articleThe Trends of Autumn (August 1974)
On Television THE TRENDS OF AUTUMN BY MARVIN KITMAN With the help of my most reliably informed—and uninformed—sources at the networks, I am prepared to reveal the latest developments in TV...
Paid articlePLUMBING THE DEPTHS (July 1974)
On Television PLUMBING THE DEPTHS BY MARVIN KITMAN The deepest new TV show of the '73 season was Kung Fu (ABC, Thursday, 9:00 p.m.) It introduced philosophy as entertainment. Of course, there is...
Paid articleCASUALTIES OF SPRING (June 1974)
on Television CASUALTIES OF SPRING BY MARVIN KITMAN First, a moment of silence for the 31 programs the networks killed from April 19-25, a period that will go down in the history of Western...
Paid articleCultural Pump Priming (May 1974)
OnTelevision CULTURAL PUMP PRIMING BY MARVIN KITMAN In 1971, the Mobil Oil Corporation announced proudly that it was giving a grant of $1.2 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to...
Paid articleGIVING THE DOG HIS DUE (April 1974)
On Television GIVING THE DOG HIS DUE BY MARVIN KITMAN A new star was born on the "Columbo" segment of The NBC Sunday Mystery Theatre the night of February 10. The unheralded performer easily...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1974)
On Television DRAGGING ANCHORMEN BY MARVIN KITMAN he 1974 season was distinguished the other evening by a meeting of TV journalism's two giants, Walter Cronkite and Ted Baxter. Baxter is the...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1974)
On Television THE THING ABOUT 'CALUCCI' BY MARVIN KITMAN Now here's the thing about Calucci's Dept. Forget that business about the show dying because it was too sophisticated, and went over the...
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OnTelevision MALIGNING A MONSTER BY MARVIN KITMAN A RUMOR is making the rounds that President Nixon plans to order a ban on the production of all Frankenstein movies to conserve electricity....
Paid articleOn Television (December 1973)
On Television PARCELING 'WAR AND PEACE' BY MARVIN KITMAN SOME OF the scenes in the Russian movie version of Count Tolstoy's novel War and Peace?presented by ABC Television on four nights in...
Paid articleStretching the Law (November 1973)
On Television STRETCHING THE LAW BY MARVIN KITMAN nesdays, 10 p.m.) is the first law-and-order show in the history of television to star Telly Sevalas. In the series, noteworthy also because it...
Paid articlePermissive Programming (October 1973)
On Television PERMISSIVE PROGRAMING BY MARVIN KITMAN used to worry about that poor nun over at ABC who flew. The mere thought of a young novice flying alone every Thursday night without...
Paid articleLadies of the Morning (September 1973)
On Television LADIES OF THE MORNING BY MARVIN KITMAN what I would like to hear at 7 A.M. on television is a bugler blowing reveille. This is an inspirational musical theme that for some reason...
Paid articleRunning for the 'Crazy Seat' (August 1973)
On Television RUNNING FOR THE 'CRAZY SEAT' BY MARVIN KITMAN of the 34 candidates listed in Broadcasting, the authoritative TV industry journal, as being considered by the White House for the...
Paid articleSam Ervin's All-Stars (July 1973)
On Television SAM ERVIN'S ALL-STARS BY MARVIN KITMAN Judge John J. Sirica's June 12 ruling that the Watergate hearings could continue on television was a landmark decision. Archibald Cox, the...
Paid articleThe Retrurn of Mister Yesterday (April 1973)
On Television THE RETURN OF MISTER YESTERDAY BY MARVIN KITMAN Good has been very good to me," explained Jack Paar on January 8, the first evening of his new one-week-a-month show on ABC. The Lord...
Paid articleMissing Nixon's Image (March 1973)
On Television MISSING NIXON'S IMAGE BY MARVIN KITMAN I was wondering the other evening why the television networks don't use a little imagination and rerun our President's Inauguration? They...
Paid articleNews on Command (February 1973)
On Television NEWS ON COMMAND BY MARVIN KITMAN There are three dangerous "isms" in this country today, it was explained on the TV special That Was the Year That Was (ABC, December 26)....
Paid articleThe Public's Defender (January 1973)
On Television THE PUBLICS DEFENDER BY MARVIN KITMAN l would like to say a few thousand words about the Nick Johnson Seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that regulates...
Paid articleMadison Avenue Machismo (November 1972)
On Television MADISON AVENUE MACHISMO BY MARVIN KITMAN one morning recently Anthony Shaw????A pseudonym for a famous pediatric surgeon at a leading Southern University????was in the operating...
Paid articleWinning is the Only Thing (October 1972)
On Television WINNING IS THE ONLY THING BY MARVIN KITMAN This is the first in a series of very plain talks on very practical politics It was delivered by a man who, in his way, has the stature of...
Paid articleThe Rating Game (October 1972)
OnTelevision THE RATING GAME BY MARVIN KITMAN A / vicious hate campaign blamed the Nielsen ratings for the Cavett Crisis of April-August, 1972. Undoubtedly, hundreds of thousands of letters...
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On Television MASTER CHESSCASTER BY MARVIN KITMAN The morning that public television's coverage of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship chess match was to begin, word went out that...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1972)
On Television HERE'S YOUR EMMY-WHATS YOUR HURRY BY MARVIN KITMAN he surest way to win an Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement in a Variety/Talk Series" (the nominees this year were Johnny Carson,...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1972)
On Television LATE-SEASON DRIBBLINGS BY MARVIN KITMAN The recent New York Knickerbockers-Los Angeles Lakers basketball play-offs, featured on the ABC network, may not have been the most important...
Paid articleThe First Annual Kitty Awards (May 1972)
On Television THE FIRST ANNUAL KITTY AWARDS BY MARVIN KITMAN LADIES AND gentlemen of the television industry members of the press, my fellow TV viewers On the occasion of the release of the...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1972)
OnTelevision VOICES OF HEAVENLY PEACE BY MARVIN KITMAN Before we are subjected to next May's special documentary??live telecasts of the President trotting around the Kremlin in his cotton...
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On Television CONFESSIONS OF A NETWORK NEWS DEPARTMENT BY MARVIN KITMAN T m he most memorable event in the history of the television documentary occurred the night of December 21, when an NBC...
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On Television CABLE TROUBLE BY MARVIN KITMAN Last month the prestigious Sloan Commission on Cable Communications finally released its report on the future of broadcasting. After spending 18...
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On Television WOOD PANELS BY MARVIN KITMAN HE TV TALK SHOW-the most effective instrument for keeping viewers informed that the medium has thought of since it was invented m 1927??was best...
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OnTelevision BASEBALL IN BLUE BY MARVIN KITMAN THER TELEVISION public's light to know seemed in jeopardy last summer when the New York Me+s baseball team oidered the announcers on a local...
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On Television MARKETING THE PRIME MINISTER BY MARVIN KITMAN LONDON-reat Britain is so terribly backward a country that it wasn't until July that a Prime Minister finally held a televised press...
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On Television THE WASTELAND REVISITED MARVIN KITMAN ALTHOUGH the tv industry didn't make much of it. May 9 was the 10th anniversary of Newton Minow's famous speech about American television....
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On Television THE SAME SIDE OF THE COIN BY MARVIN KITMAN THE 1971 Public Television Conference, held last month at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, awarded Joan Ganz Cooney its highly...
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On Television LESSONS FROM CRITIC SPIRO BY MARVIN KITMAN An enterprising academic fellow at Vanderbilt University has spliced together all the network news coverage of the Laos incursion--at...
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On Television POWER TO THE PENTAGON BY MARVIN KITMAN One night in 1967, a friend of mine who then worked for cbs came home and told his wife to watch the CBS Eleven O'Clock News because the...
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On Television PROCESSING THE NEWS BY MARVIN KITMAN In the early days of tv journalism, it was fairly common to tune in a news show for enlightenment and discover a correspondent like nbc's Hugh...
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On Television DEFEAT BY ASSOCIATION BY MARVIN KITMAN I would like to compliment television for its very beautiful job of reporting the returns on election night, November 3. The results were...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1970)
On Television A PIGSKIN IN EVERY POT BY MARVIN KITMAN One weekend last November, while more than 250,000 people assembled in Washington to demonstrate against the Vietnam war, President Nixon...
Paid articleSeason of the Dinosaurs (September 1970)
On Television SEASON OF THE DINOSAURS by marvin kitman In the course of petitioning the Federal Communications Commission for relief from one of its new rules—the reduction of network "prime...
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OnTelevision THE BATTLE OF THE BLIP BY MARVIN KITMAN o bscenity on television is one of those things nobody talks about, but everybody does something about. When an objectionable word crops up...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1970)
On Television EDUCATING THE AVERAGE VIEWER BY MARVIN KITMAN Kitman's second law of television is that if it does not move, Jack Gould likes it. Nevertheless, the New York Times television critic...
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Onlelevision after the revolution BY MARVIN KITMAN I have seen people drinking on television before. When Jackie Glea-son appeared on a 90-minute David Frost special earlier this season, he...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1970)
On Television KIM NOVAK ON THE ROCKS BY MARVIN KITMAN when i asked an abc public relations man what Kim Novak would be doing in This Land Is Mine-the network's documentary study ot all that...
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On Television PLAINTIFFS AND PONTIFFS BY MARVIN KITMAN American foreign policy in the last 52 years was the subject of a television documentary, "Who Invited US7," presented by the National...
Paid articlePastore's All Purpose Program (January 1970)
On Television PASTORE'S ALL-PURPOSE PROGRAM BY MARVIN KITMAN Dr. Frank Stanton, the president of CBS, won yet another award for public service last month this time from that disinterested body,...
Paid articleMANAGING THE NEWS (December 1969)
On Television MANAGING THE NEWS BY MARVIN KITMAN The most dramatic demonstration of the way television works as an information medium that I have witnessed recently occurred last November 16 on...
Paid articleNIXON CALLING THE SIGNALS (November 1969)
On Television NIXON CALLING THE SGNALS BY MARVIN KITMAN Everybody took off from work on Moratorium Day (October 15). As my sacrifice, I didn't watch television the last two weeks of the month, so...
Paid articleThe Jackie Susann Syndrome (September 1969)
ON TELEVISION For years various disciplines have been studying the effects of television on viewers. Oculists are trying to determine what tv does to the eyes. Radiologists are attempting to...
Paid articleOut to Launch (August 1969)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Out to Launch Since cbs and nbc are two of my favorite networks, I feel bad about criticizing the moon shows they put on last month for us stay-at-homes. A lot of...
Paid articleUp Against the Outfield Wall (May 1969)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Up Against the Outfield Wall Baseball is a great American institution, and like so many of our institutions these days it is being challenged—even on television. A...
Paid articleOf Presidents and Panelists (April 1969)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Of Presidents and Panelists For some reason the major networks didn't give the recent hearings held by the Senate Subcommittee on Communications the full coverage...
Paid articlePlaying the Death Market (March 1969)
ON TELEVISION Lest my enemies in television accuse me of ulterior motives in discussing the recent Federal Communications Commission (fcc) decision to seek an eventual ban on tv cigarette...
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ON TELEVISION The television magazine 60 Minutes, invented by cbs only last year, already has given us some memorable moments of shallowness. My favorite piece so far was the interview with Otto...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman At this time of the year it is my custom to give out awards. The tv season has been so mediocre, however. I haven't been able to single out the 10 worst shows of...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Sunday Suffering Adistinguished publisher of historical schlock, Chelsea House (which has given us State of the Union messages and complete U.S. peace treaties),...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman on Candid Camera Richard Milhous Nixon went to the American people on television two weeks ago to tell the truth again about his past. He has raked over this...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Beauty and the Beasts Forty-nine candidates were defeated in the Miss America race at Convention Hall in Atlantic City this year for reasons that were never made...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman The Way It Wasn't These notes on television's coverage of the Republican National Convention are being transcribed at a time when the nation is gathering strength...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Color Television Adouble-page spread in Variety last week described the plot of one of the interesting experiments planned for the 1968-9 television season, an...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman The Heat in the Kitchen GDavid Schine and I were in B the U.S. Army together, protecting the country against Communism by taking basic training in the 47th...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman As Long As It Moves Summers have been occurring on television since David Sar-noff officially launched the industry at the New York World's Fair in 1939. But this...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1968)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman The New York outlet of the American Broadcasting Company, wabc-tv, has been winning something of a reputation this season for a number of locally produced...
Paid articleOn Television (February 1968)
ON TELEVISION Since the medium is the message, I did not feel guilty during the President's recent State of the Union speech about concentrating on his tv style rather than his arguments Surely, no...
Paid articleAdvantages of Tuning in Late (November 1967)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Advantages of Tuning In Late Ifeel I owe an apology to anyone who followed my recommendations and watched the programs I praised so highly m my review of the new...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1967)
ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Kitman's First Law Somehow I seem to have lost all the notes I took while screening the first episodes of the new television season's 26 new series. My first...
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ON TELEVISION Anetwork public relations executive called several weeks ago to remind me that there was a new television season this fall. "I don't want to influence your opinions," he said, "but I...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Knock, Knock Who's There? Atrend is discernible in the fall tv schedule. The networks this year don't seem to be in the mood for experimenting. An old western is...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kit man McLuhan the Medium The invention of Marshall McLuhan has made obsolete the way we judge television. Most people who watched the nbc-tv "Experiment in Television"...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Bedtime Story When the editor of this magazine suggested I become the television critic, I declined the honor. It wasn't only that the critics of the other more...
Paid articleThe Perils of Publishing (January 1967)
PERSPECTIVES The Perils of Publishing By Marvin Kitman While reading Robert Gut-willig's essay "Reflections of a Publisher" (NL, December 5), I found myself vaguely wondering what a publisher...
Paid articleConfession of a non-Lindsay Voter (January 1966)
NATIONAL REPORTS Confession of a non-Lindsay Voter By Marvin Kitman As I drove across New York last week, my mind kept turning to Mayor John Lindsay's recent assertion that New York is a...
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A MACHINE-MADE VIEW OF GOP PROSPECTS New Faces of 1964 By Marvin Kitman Like many registered Republicans, I spent the evening of November 6 switching the TV from channel to channel hoping...
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BILLIE SOL IN NEW JERSEY Savior of the Suburbs By Marvin Kitman In his inaugural address, President Kennedy urged Americans to ask not what their country can do for them, but what they...
Paid articlePolitics Through a 'Monocle' (May 1962)
Politics Through a 'Monocle' By Marvin Kitman Last week, the White House received a plan for solving the nation's security problems. "The Government is spending millions to protect...
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New Wave from the Right By Marvin Kitman if A tidal wave of conserva-f\ tism is sweeping the nation's colleges," Senator Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) has been saying the past year. He has also...
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