Living Room War

Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant - and entertaining - attempt to figure out exactly what television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.

Introduction

vii

At Least

3

(3)

Living-Room War

6

(4)

Some Problems

10

(4)

The National Broadcasting Company Views the Manila Conference & Finds It Pleasing

14

(3)

Peter Hackes Tells Us About the Hand-Over-Hand Restraining System & Other Stories

17

(5)

Morley Safer Loses His Breath but Finds His Voice: A Moral Tale

22

(4)

Main Currents of American Thought (Cont.)

26

(4)

I've Got Those Mad about Them, Sad about Them, Edu-cay-shunal Television Blues

30

(5)

Perspectives

35

(5)

The Networks Continue to Give Us What We Really Want. We Are Immeasurably Grateful & Utter Little Cries of Help

40

(5)

The Bombs Below Go Pop-Pop-Pop

45

(6)

Thumbprints

51

(4)

Marshall McLuhan & the Technological Embrace

55

(6)

Morley Safer's Vietnam

61

(5)

The Bodiless Tackle, the Second-Hand Thud

66

(6)

The Telly

72

(8)

Television's War

80

(6)

A Day in the Life

86

(17)

Television and the Press in Vietnam; or, Yes, I Can Hear You Very Well--Just What Was It You Were Saying?

103

(20)

The Ten Most Shows

123

(6)

PBL

129

(6)

President Johnson Models the New Microphone, the Governor of Michigan Brandishes an Issue, the Ship of State Sails On, & Other Melodies of the Nineteen-Sixties

135

(7)

Propaganda

142

(7)

Something Live

149

(5)

A Whole Lot of Fun

154

(6)

Watchman, What of the Night? ... or, God Bless Our Public Interest: Further Fables for Our Time

160

(8)

An Illustrated History of the War

168

(6)

Positive, Negative

174

(6)

Sunday

180

(10)

How Do You Feel?

190

(6)

McCarthy in Wisconsin

196

(6)

Life and Death in the Global Village

202

(5)

Kennedy in California

207

(16)

Griefspeak

223

(4)

Moon over Miami

227

(10)

A Wednesday Evening in Chicago

237

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