3. Global Comprehension

The Nature of TV in America Parti:

1. What was the traditional pattern in the distribution of prime time ratings among the networks?

2. How has this pattern changed over the last years?

3. What are the financial implications of this change?

4. What consequences does this change have on the programming?

Part II:

5. How does Richard Burke feel about the choice of programs offered by American TV?

6. What, according to Richard Burke, are the determining factors for TV programming?

7. Looking at the design of American TV programming in general, what is its predominant feature?

8. Which format of TV entertainment is the most popular?

THE MEDIA 277

4. Choosing a tv Program

Television—Thursday Evening

Does American TV cater for a great variety of tastes? Make suggestions for an evening's viewing for people who

are interested in situational comedy

enjoy watching TV series

are fond of police dramas

are interested in politics

like music videos

are very religious

are sports fans

enjoy watching movie films.

5. Comparative Study

1. Compare Eric Sevareid's and Richard Burke's views on television.

2. How does TV programming in your country compare with that in the United States?

6. Text Analysis

This is Not Your Life: Television as the Third Parent

1. What was the object and the result of the research which the author pursued earlier?

2. How does the present object of research relate to the previous one?

3. What hypothesis is his research based on?

4. Where did he try to find proof for this hypothesis?

5. To what extent do parents and TV form a child's view of the world?

6. How does the average child's real life experience compare with television reality?

7. What kind of values are propagated by TV?

8. Which findings verify Stem's hypothesis and how does he support his arguments?

7. Letter Writing

Write a letter to the editor of PUBLIC OPINION and comment on the hypothesis and the findings of Benjamin Stein.

8. Analysis and Discussion

The Likability Sweepstakes

1. In the age of television, the images of candidates are more important than issues. At the beginning of the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush was seen as awkward, wimpish, maladroit, goofy and lacking charisma, whereas Dukakis was characterized as competent, soulless, reserved, tough and hard. How did the image-makers remodel their candidates to make them appear more likeable and appealing to a vast TV audience?

2. How useful then are televised presidential debates?

3. The quotation from Arthur Miller's Death of Salesman underlines the American belief that being well-liked is an important key to success. Do you share this view?

4. To what extent do you think the likability ■ factor decides elections in your country?

9. Comment

Dilemmas

1. Which cases mentioned in the opinion poll did the respondents find the most objectionable and which the least objectionable? How do you account for the results of this opinion poll?

2. If you were an editor, how would you react in each of the situations described?

3. Do you know any similar cases that actually happened in the U.S.A., any other country or your own country?

278 AMERICA IN CLOSE-UP

Some Facts about the States

	Date of		Area	Land	Population		Cities
State	admission	Capital	(sq. mi.)	area	(1982 est.)	Density1	100,000+
1 Delaware	1787	Dover	2,057	1,982	602,000	312
2 Pennsylvania	1787	Harrisburg	45,333	44,966	11,865,000	264	4
3 New Jersey	1787	Trenton	7,836	7,521	7,438,000	996	4
4 Georgia	1788	Atlanta	58,876	58,073	5,639,000	97	4
5 Connecticut	1788	Hartford	5,009	4,862	3,153,000	647	5
6 Massachusetts	1788	Boston	8,257	7,826	5,781,000	739	3
7 Maryland	1788	Annapolis	10,577	9,891	4,265,000	434	1
8 South Carolina	1788	Columbia	31,055	30,255	3,203,000	106	—
9 New Hampshire	1788	Concord	9,304	9,027	951,000	106	—
10 Virginia	1788	Richmond	40,817	39,780	5,491,000	138	10
11 New York	1788	Albany	49,576	47,831	17,659,000	373	6
12 North Carolina	1789	Raleigh	52,586	48,798	6,019,000	123	5
13 Rhode Island	1790	Providence	1,214	1,049	958,000	908	1
14 Vermont	1791	Montpelier	9,609	9,267	516,000	56	—
15 Kentucky	1792	Frankfort	40,395	39,650	3,667,000	92	2
16 Tennessee	1796	Nashville	42,244	41,328	4,651,000	113	4
17 Ohio	1803	Columbus	41,222	40,975	10,791,000	263	7
18 Louisiana	1812	Baton Rouge	48,523	44,930	4,362,000	98	4
19 Indiana	1816	Indianapolis	36,291	36,097	5,471,000	152	5
20 Mississippi	1817	Jackson	47,716	47,296	2,551,000	54	1
21 Illinois	1818	Springfield	56,400	55,748	11,448,000	206	3
22 Alabama	1819	Montgomery	51,609	50,708	3,943,000	78	4
23 Maine	1820	Augusta	33,215	30,920	1,133,000	37	—
24 Missouri	1821	Jefferson City	69,686	68,995	4,951,000	72	4
25 Arkansas	1836	Little Rock	53,104	51,945	2,291,000	59	1
26 Michigan	1837	Lansing	58,216	56,817	9,109,000	160	8
27 Florida	1845	Tallahassee	58,560	54,090	10,416,000	192	8
28 Texas	1845	Austin	267,338	262,134	15,280,000	58	15
29 Iowa	1846	Des Moines	56,290	55,941	2,905,000	52	3
30 Wisconsin	1848	Madison	56,154	54,464	4,765,000	88	2
31 California	1850	Sacramento	158,693	156,361	24,724,000	158	26
32 Minnesota	1858	St. Paul	84,068	79,289	4,133,000	52	2
33 Oregon	1859	Salem	96,981	96,184	2,649,000	28	2
34 Kansas	1861	Topeka	82,264	81,787	2,408,000	29	3
35 West Virginia	1863	Charleston	24,181	24,070	1,948,000	81	—
36 Nevada	1864	Carson City	110,540	109,889	881,000	8	2
37 Nebraska	1867	Lincoln	77,227	76,483	1,585,000	21	2
38 Colorado	1876	Denver	104,247	103,766	3,045,000	29	5
39 North Dakota	1889	Bismarck	70,665	69,273	670,000	10	—
40 South Dakota	1889	Pierre	77,047	75,955	691,000	9	_
41 Montana	1889	Helena	147,138	145,587	801,000	6	—
42 Washington	1889	Olympia	68,192	66,570	4,245,000	64	3
43 Idaho	1890	Boise	83,577	82,677	965,000	12	1
44 Wyoming	1890	Cheyenne	97,914	97,203	502,000	5	—
45 Utah	1896	Salt Lake City	84,916	82,096	1,554,000	19	1
46 Oklahoma	1907	Oklahoma City	69,919	68,782	3,177,000	46	2
47 New Mexico	1912	Santa Fe	121,666	121,412	1,359,000	11	1
48 Arizona	1912	Phoenix	113,909	113,417	2,860,000	25	4
49 Alaska	1959	Juneau	589,757	569,600	438,000	1	1
50 Hawaii	1959	Honolulu	6,450	6,425	994,000	155	1
Dist. of Columbia		Washington	67	61	631,000	10,016	1
Puerto Rico		San Juan	3,435	3,421	3,261,000	943	5
Guam		Agana		209	111,000	531	—
American Samoa		Fagotogo		76	34,000	447	-
Virgin Islands		Charlotte Amalie		132	102,000	772	—

'Density: persons per square mile of land area

PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 279

Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States

	Years in				State
President	office	Party	Born	Died	Born/Home	Vice-President
1 George Washington	1789-1797		1732	1799	Virginia	John Adams
2 John Adams	1797-1801	Federalist	1735	1826	Massachusetts	Thomas Jefferson
3 Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Republican	1743	1826	Virginia	Aaron Burr
						George Clinton
4 James Madison	1809-1817	Republican	1751	1836	Virginia	George Clinton
						Elbridge Gerry
5 James Monroe	1817-1825	Republican	1758	1831	Virginia	Daniel D. Tompkins
6 John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Nat. Rep.	1767	1848	Massachusetts	John C. Calhoun
7 Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Democratic	1767	1845	S.C./Tenn.	John C. Calhoun
						Martin Van Buren
8 Martin Van Buren	1837-1841	Democratic	1782	1862	New York	Richard M. Johnson
9 William Henry Harrison	Mar. 1841	Whig	1773	1841	Va./Ohio	John Tyler
10 John Tyler	1841-1845	Whig	1790	1862	Virginia
11 James K. Polk	1845-1849	Democratic	1795	1849	N.C./Tenn.	George M. Dallas
12 Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	Whig	1784	1850	Va./La.	Millard Fillmore
13 Millard Fillmore	1850-1853	Whig	1800	1874	New York
14 Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	Democratic	1804	1869	New Hampshire	William R.D. King
15 James Buchanan	1857-1861	Democratic	1791	1868	Pennsylvania	John C. Breckinridge
16 Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Republican	1809	1865	Ky./Ill.	Hannibal Hamlin
						Andrew Johnson
17 Andrew Johnson	1865-1869	Republican	1808	1875	N.C./Tenn.
18 Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	Republican	1822	1885	Ohio/Ill.	Schuyler Colfax
						Henry Wilson
19 Rutherford B. Hayes	1877-1881	Republican	1822	1893	Ohio	William A. Wheeler
20 James A. Garfield	1881	Republican	1831	1881	Ohio	Chester A. Arthur
21 Chester A. Arthur	1881-1885	Republican	1830	1886	Vt./N.Y.
22 Grover Cleveland	1885-1889	Democratic	1837	1908	N.J./N.Y.	Thomas A. Hendricks
23 Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Republican	1833	1901	Ohio/Ind.	Levi P. Morton
24 Grover Cleveland	1893-1897	Democratic	1837	1908	N.J./N.Y.	Adlai E. Stevenson
25 William McKinley	1897-1901	Republican	1843	1901'	Ohio	Garret A. Hobart
						Theodore Roosevelt
26 Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909	Republican	1858	1919	New York	Charles W. Fairbanks
27 William Howard Taft	1909-1913	Republican	1857	1930	Ohio	James S. Sherman
28 Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	Democratic	1856	1924	Va./NJ.	Thomas R. Marshall
29 Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	Republican	1865	1923	Ohio	Calvin Coolidge
30 Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	Republican	1872	1933	Vt./Mass.	Charles G. Dawes
31 Herbert С Hoover	1929-1933	Republican	1874	1964	lowa/Cal.	Charles Curtis
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933-1945	Democratic	1882	1945	New York	John N. Garner
						Henry A. Wallace
						Harry S. Truman
33 Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Democratic	1884	1972	Missouri	Alben W. Barkley
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953-1961	Republican	1890	1969	Tex./NY., Pa.	Richard M. Nixon
35 John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Democratic	1917	1963	Massachusetts	Lyndon B. Johnson
36 Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Democratic	1908	1973	Texas	Hubert H. Humphrey
37 Richard M. Nixon	1969-1974	Republican	1913		Ca./N.Y., Cal.	Spiro T. Agnew
						Gerald R. Ford
38 Gerald R. Ford	1974-1977	Republican	1913		Neb. /Mich.	Nelson A. Rockefeller
39 Jimmy (James Earl) Carter	1977-1981	Democratic	1924		Georgia	Walter F. Mondale
40 Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Republican	1911		Ill./Cal.	George Bush
41 George Bush	1989-	Republican	1924		Mass./Texas	James Danforth
						Quayle

_Index

abortion issue 759, 220 abundance 27 abstract expressionism 228 achievement 292 Adams, J.T. 29 aerobics 245 affirmative action 723 affluence 59 Afghanistan 776 AFL - CIO 65, 146 Age Discrimination Act 115 agribusiness 63 agriculture 50, 63, 73 Ailey, Alvin 231 air-conditioning 49 amendment to the

Constitution 222 amendment I 220 amendment II 106 amendment VIII 107 amendment XIII 112 American culture 184 American dream 18, 29,

32, 35, 217 American Independent

Party 148 American Indian

Movement 7 75 Americanization 46, 185 American Medical

Association 746 A Nation at Risk 192 antebellum South 57 anti-Communism 774, 181 anti-feminism 737 architecture 50, 87, 93 Arizona 46 arms control 762, 276 Armstrong, Louis 229 arts 225

assimilation 75, 772 Associated Press 262 Atlanta 48, 84 automation 65

balance of power 173, 774 balance of trade 273 ballet 232 Baltimore 48 baseball 245, 247, 252 basketball 246, 247, 248,

249, 252 Beacon Hill 83 Bellow, Saul 81 Bernstein, Leonard 18,

229

bilingualism 774 Bill of Rights 25, 97, 143 blacks 77, 81, 772 blues 45, 228 boarding school 777 boards of education 790

Boone, Daniel 26 Boston 48, 83, 85

boxing 247

Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyrich

776

Broadway 233 Brown v. Board of Education

108, 109, 113, 191 Buddhism 206, 213 budget deficit 62 Burger, Warren Earl 99 burglary 99 Bush, George 253, 762,

264, 274

business 84, 146 bussing 797

cabinet 244

cable television 265

Calder, Alexander 227,

228

California 45, 55 Capra, Frank 232 career 233

career woman 233, 236 Carnegie, Andrew 64 car racing 247 Carter, Jimmy 262, 776,

263

Catholic bishops 218 Catholic Church 272, 278 Catholicism 22 2, 272 Central America 276 Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA) 276

chamber of commerce 246 Chavez, Cesar 222 checks and balances 244 cheerleaders 247, 249 Chicago 25, 46, 82 Chicanos 727 child care 732, 232 children 227, 737 church 206, 272, 275 church attendance 205,

206, 212

church buildings 205 city 75, 79, 82

crime 203, 705

planning 83, 84, 87, 93 civil rights legislation 7 73 civil rights movement 7 73,

226

Civil War 25, 44, 49, 112 class 46, 65, 162 Cleveland 85 climate 43, 47 coaches 250 cold war 274 college 43, 48, 189, 200,

257

college sports 248, 251 colonialism 30 colonies 23 commercial broadcasting

262, 264

communication 67, 262 communism 274, 275 community 89 commuting 83 - competition 59, 62, 262 computer 67, 196 Confederacy 49 congregation 275 Congregationalist church

277 Congress 242, 247, 754,

764 congressional committee

743, 757 conservatism 29, 45, 59,

159 Constitution 25, 97, 142,

145, 151, 263 containment 174 convention 262 corporation 47, 64, 67, 70,

73, 93

counseling 296 country club 246 country music 45 country-western 229 courts 97, 99 crime 28, 88, 97, 99

prevention 200

rate 99 criminal 200 Crocket, Davy 26 Cuban missile crisis 275 cultural diversity 25 cultural identity 2 24 culture 225 curriculum 290

Dale, Sir Thomas 27 death penalty 200, 206 Declaration of

Independence 26, 31,

112

Decter, Midge 132 defense 262, 272, 277 de Kooning, Willem 227,

228 Democratic Party 45, 146,

148, 262, 264 democratic values 273 departments 244 Depression, Great 73, 160 desegregation 223, 292,

227

detente 276 deterioration 82, 83 Detroit 82, 85

Dewey, John 26 dialect, Southern 45 disabled, the 225 discipline 295, 298, 299 discrimination 15, 18, 25,

112, 115

do-it-yourselfer 27 dollar, role of 272 downtown 84 Dixie 49, 50 Dukakis, Michael 274 Duncan, Isadora 232 Dylan, Bob 232

ecology 75, 157 economic aid 273, 275 economic interests 273 Economic Opportunity Act

290

economic strength 272 economy 59, 160, 262, 764 editorials 263 education 2 27, 734, 788,

200, 251

educational ideal 290 educational philosophies

793

egalitarianism 207 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

709, 775, 274 elderly, the 7 75, 722 election campaign 48, 133,

148, 161, 162, 274 electronic church 274 Ellington, Duke 229 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 26 entertainment 55, 225, 264 entrepreneur 64, 66 Episcopal church 22 2 equality 228, 279 Equal Pay Act 728 equal rights 722 Equal Rights Act 128 Equal Rights Amendment

(ERA) 52, 130, 133 ethnic minorities 112 ethnicity 14, 15, 19, 81 European Economic

Community 64 evangelical movement 223 evangelism 223, 220 examinations 294, 297 excellence 293 executive branch 244

Falwell, Jerry 223, 220

family 232, 733, 734, 735

farmer 73

farmland 46

fast food 70

Faulkner, William 45, 50

federalism 242

INDEX 281

Federal-Communications

Commission 264 federal land 757 female-headed household

735

feminism 728, 133, 134 fencing 247 Ferraro, Geraldine 129 film 232, 237, 240 film director 237 film making 237, 240 film producer 237 fitness 245, 254 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 117,

119

folk music 45 football 245, 251 Ford, Gerald 263 Ford, Henry 64 foreign affairs 160 foreign investment 772 foreign policy 161, 164,

173, 179

foreign trade 272 Founding Fathers 25, 59,

112

free enterprise 59, 64 freedom 25, 59, 173, 179,

181, 216

freedom of the press 263 Friedan, Betty 228 frontier 26 Frostbelt 47 fruit picking 720 Fuller, Margaret 26 fundamentalism 734, 273 fund-raising 220

Gallup poll 252, 253 gentrification S3 Georgetown 83 Gershwin, George 229 Gibson, Kirk 247 Gillespie, "Dizzy" 229 Goetz, Bernhard 702, 705 Gold water, Barry 249 golf 247

Gorbachev, Mikhail 178 government 37, 46, 59,

742, 767, 762 Graham, Martha 237 graphic arts 227, 228 Great Depression 73, 160 Great Lakes 43, 46 growth 47 gun control 702, 705 gymnastics 247

Hammerstein, Oscar 229 handguns, registration of

702

handicapped, the 792 Harvard 43, 119, 251 health 724, 254 Higher Education Act 790 high school 789, 795, 797

high technology 45, 66,

67, 93

Hinduism 273 Hispanics 774 hockey 247 Holiness Church 270 Hollywood 232, 237, 240,

242, 264 homicide 99 homosexuals 775, 232 horse racing 247 House of Representatives

742

housing projects 704, 727 Houston 82 human rights 273 Humphrey, Hubert 752

ice hockey 247 ideals 25 ideology 749 illegal aliens 76, 27 illegal immigration 76, 27,

774

illiteracy 792 immigration 73, 74, 75, 76,

20, 21, 81 independence 26 Independence Day 28 Indians 74, 224, 226 individualism 26, 59 industrialization 75, 44,

50, 82

integration 797 interest groups 746 interest rates 773 intermediate-range nuclear

force (INF) 778 international affairs 270 international relations

279, 787, 782 interventionism 7 73 inventiveness 27 investment policies 272 Iran 767

Iran-Iraq War 278 isolationism 46, 173 Israel 257, 278, 220

James, William 26 jazz 45, 228

Jefferson, Thomas 26, 30 Jews 220, 22 2 job discrimination 728 jogging 245, 254 John Birch Society 272 Johns Jaspar 228 Johnson, Lyndon B. 749,

756, 775, 787, 790 Joplin, Scott 228 Judaism 270, 27 7 judge 99 judicial branch 97 jury 97 justice 97, 179, 217

Kennedy, John F. 77, 775,

793 Khrushchev, Nikita

Sergeevich 775 King, Martin Luther Jr.

773, 226

Kissinger, Henry 776, 279 Koch, Ed 29, 205 Korea 775 Ku Klux Klan 222

labor unions 47, 65, 146 law 97, 143 lawyer 96 Lebanon 2 78 legislation 742, 752, 754 liberalism 759 liberals 59 Libertarian Party 748 liberty 779

Liberty Federation 273 Lichtenstein, Roy 228 literature 43, 45 living standard 59, 132 lobby 746, 757 Los Angeles 48, 82 Lutheran church 207, 208, 211

magazines 267, 262 mainstream culture 47,

162 mainstream Protestant

churches 277 majority leader 754 manager 732 manifest destiny 55 market instability 773 marriage 727, 732, 733,

735, 736

Marshall Plan 775, 783 Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) 43 materialism 54 McCullers, Carson 45 mechanization (of farming)

63 media 38, 146, 252, 261,

266,274 megalopolis 82 melting-pot 77, 79, 49, 81 metropolitan area 82 Mexican-American 76,

774, 720

Mid-Atlantic states 43 migrant worker 720 migration 47 military aid 775, 178 military intervention 775,

278, 787

military strength 770 Middle East 778 Midwest, the 46 minorities 78, 92, 100, 112,

120, 124, 162, 200 Miranda rule 700

Mitchell, Margaret 52 mixed media 228 mobility 28, 47 modern dance 237 Monroe, Marilyn 228 Montana 46 Moral Majority 759, 273,

222

moral principles 234 Mormons 45, 208, 210 motherhood 232, 232, 234 movie 232, 237, 240 movie actor 237 mugging 99 murder 99, 200, 703 museums 225 music 228 musical 78, 229

Namath, Joe 247 National Commission on

Excellence in Education

792 National Endowment for

the Arts 226 National Farmers Union

246 National Football League

(NFL) 244

national identity 77, 25, 28 nationalism 28, 38, 180 National Organization for

Women (NOW) 728 NATO 770 nature 75, 776 negro spiritual 45 neighborhood 79, 87, 88,

89

neoconservatives 759 networks 264, 267 New England 43, 53 New Mexico 46 newspapers 267, 262 news services 262 New York 79, 82 New York Times 262 Nicaragua 776 Nixon, Richard 29, 176,

264

nonviolence 723 nuclear war 779, 278 nuclear weapons 775, 776,

777, 278

O'Connor, Sandra Day

729

"Op"-art 228 opera 229 optimism 27 opportunity 29, 179 Oregon 45

painting 227, 228 Parker, Charlie 229 parties 746, 748, 750 patriotism 28, 30, 38

282 INDEX

peace 161, 179, 218 Peace and Freedom Party

248

Peachtree Center 84 Pearl Harbor 174 Pentagon Papers 264 Philadelphia 84 pioneers 26 Pittsburgh 48, 85, 93 plantation 44, 51 plays 233, 235 playwrights 233 pluralism 222 police 300, 202 political participation 245 politician 252 politics 252, 220 Pollack, Jackson 228

pollution 75

pop art 228

pop concerts 225

Populist Party 249

post-industrial age 48, 62

poverty 57, 81, 83, 91, 114

power politics 282

pragmatism 26, 28, 179

prejudice 18, 113

Presbyterian church 207, 208, 211

president 99, 144, 153, 161, 163, 164

presidential elections 244, 253, 264, 223, 220, 274

Presley, Elvis 232

press 86, 262

principles, moral 234, 279

prison 202, 224

private enterprise 26, 59, 64, 149

private schools 289

productivity 59, 60, 62, 62, 63

professional sports 248

programming 264, 269, 270, 272

progress 29, 179

Progressive Party 249

prosperity 59, 262

protectionism 273

Protestants 23, 44, 210, 222, 222

public opinion 246, 262

public schools 189, 190

public service 252

Puritans 23, 43, 53, 211

Quakers 220 quality of life 232

race relations 222, 227

racial prejudices 223

racism 227

radical churches 222

radio 264

ragtime 228

rape 88

ratings 264, 269

Rauschenberg, Robert

228, 230 Reagan, Ronald 38, 115,

159, 161, 164, 176, 213,

274

recreational parks 246 Reformed churches 222 refugees 26, 20 regional identity 43 regions of the U.S. 43 Rehabilitation Act 225 Rehnquist, William 99 religion 43, 116, 205 and politics 259, 223, 220

religious books 205 religious broadcasting

214, 220, 222 religious cults 223 religious diversity 222 religiousness 205 religious sects 223 representative 254

representative democracy 242

Republican Party 44, 146, 148, 250, 259, 264

resources 46, 157

restoration 83, 87

retirement resort 222

rights of man 280

robbery 99

Roberts, Oral 220

Robertson, Pat 223, 220

rock' n roll 229

Rodgers, Richard 229

roles 233

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 259

Roosevelt, Theodore 252

Rothko, Mark 228

ruralization 85

rural life 85

Sandinistas 2 76 San Francisco 85 Santa Fe 48 satellite TV 265 schedule 297 Schlafly, Phyllis 232 Scholastic Aptitude Test

(SAT) 294 school 288, 193, 195, 199

administration 290

attendance 288

prayer 213, 222

sports 247, 249 Schuller, Robert 224 screen writer 237 sculpture 228 segregation 223 self-defense 202, 205 self-reliance 65 Senate 242, 264 senator 255 service 225 service industries 62 sex discrimination 224,

128

Silent Majority 225 singers 242 skyscrapers 82 slavery 25, 44, 112 slaves 44 slums 82, 83 slum clearance 83 small town 85, 86. 215 Smith, Adam 59

Smith, David 228 smoking 224 soccer 247 social problems 200 social programs 249 Socialist Labor Party 248 Social Security 260, 262 social services 82, 161 Society Hill 84 Sondheim, Stephen 28,

229

South, the 44, 49, 51 Southern belle 52 Spanish language 224 speaker 254 sports 245 and society 256 and sponsors 247, 248 and the media 247, 256 and violence 247 college 248, 251 high school 297, 249 professional 248, 256 spectator 245, 247 Springsteen, Bruce 232 Stanford University 48 Statue of Liberty 30 stock market 62 Strategic Arms Limitation

Treaty 276 Strategic Arms Reduction

Talks (START) 277 Strategic Defense Initiative

(SDI) 277

street gang 227, 204 student athletes 248, 252 suburbs 82 suburbanization 82 success 64, 133 Sunbelt 47 Sun City 322 Superbowl 245 superstations 265 Supreme Court 97, 107, 108, 109, 113, 144, 191, 222, 264 suspect, rights of criminal

200

Swaggart, Jimmy 224, 220 swimming 246

teachers 292, 295, 297, 299 technology 45, 50, 60, 272 television 224, 220, 232,

261, 264, 266

and society 272

and moral standards 275

and politics 274

journalism 266

stations 266 tennis 246, 248 tests 292, 294, 295, 297 textbooks 290 Thanksgiving 28 theater 225, 233, 235 theft 99

Third World countries 273 Thoreau, Henry David 26 Tharp, Twyla 232 tournaments 249 track 247

trade 60, 172 trade deficit 173 transcendentalists 26 transportation 83 Truman, Harry S. 108,175

Union, the 49

United Press International

(UPI) 262 universities 43, 48, 200,

251 University of North

Carolina 48 University of Texas 48 urbanization 50, 81 urban renewal 83, 84, 85,

87, 93 Utah 45

values 25, 54, 55, 132, 133,

134, 161

vice president 244, 263 vigilantism 202, 205 Vietnam War 25. 29, 36,

38, 73, 175, 181, 182, 193,

264

video 265 viewing time 269 violence 45, 99, 103, 113,

265

volleyball 247, 249 volunteerism 27 voter registration 252

war 228

war technology 277

Warhol, Andy 227, 228

Warren, Robert Penn 45

water 46

Watergate 29, 264

War of Independence 31

Warsaw Pact 274

Washington, D.C. 46, 83

Washington Post 264

welfare 262

West, the 27, 45

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

(WASP) 23, 222 White House 252, 264 Whitman, Walt 26 wildlife 257 winning 36, 248 Wolfe, Thomas 45 women 227 Women's Liberation 52 Wonder, Stevie 232 worker participation 65 World War I 273 World War II 274 wrestling 247

Yankee 50, 53 yuppies 36, 65

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We have been unable to trace the copyright holder in the poems "I am the Redman" & "My Lodge" by Duke Redbird & would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.

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We have been unable to trace the copyright holders of the photographs on pages 47, 60 (top), 60 (bottom), 61 (top), 62, 63, 64, 129 (top), 161, 171 (top), 171 (bottom), 172 (top), 172 (bottom), 189, 210 and would be grateful for any information to enable us to do so.

Picture Research by Ann Hazelwood.

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