What if the glory days of public television — the days of “Monty Python,” “Upstairs Downstairs,” “The French Chef” — are past recapturing? Lately the audience for public TV has been shrinking even faster than the audience for the commercial networks.
Tag: 02.17.08
Ballet’s Next Generation Of Master Builders
“The task of running a ballet company is far more onerous today than it used to be. There are now a number of such leaders whose initial talent for choreography (which helped to get them the jobs) has lost its inspiration.”
What Happened To Play?
” Public health officials link insufficient playtime to a rise in childhood obesity. Parents bemoan the fact that kids don’t play the way they themselves did — or think they did. And everyone seems to worry that without the chance to play stickball or hopscotch out on the street, to play with dolls on the kitchen floor or climb trees in the woods, today’s children are missing out on something essential.”