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To: The Philosopher who wrote (36874)	5/6/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

My family is hovering around, moaning over their empty plates, despairing of ever being fed their dinner. But I had to ask--- YOU READ THOSE LITTLE ORANGE BIOGRAPHIES!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? I LOVED them!!!! Clara Barton, Louisa Mae Alcott, Florence Nightingale, Babe Ruth, they weren't just Wild West! And Nancy Drew- All of these, I'm sure in ways I can't realize, affected the person I became. But I did have friends (particularly the children of professors) who didn't grow up in quite the same culture, and had a more Joan-like upbringing? Joan, I'm curious about your childhood? Were you the daughter of professors? Have you shared this and I've forgotten or missed it? Anyway- ah- those little orange books...... what a wonderful memory- the Stonewall JAckson Library in Lexington Va., where SJ himself lived, and which was the hospital not long before it was the library -a lot of my friends were born there-. I can still see the row of orange books and smell that old dusty book smell.....

To: The Philosopher who wrote (36874)	5/6/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not generalizing about sitcoms, Christopher! The only point I have been trying to make is that you cannot generalize about AMERICANS as a whole on the basis of the sitcoms SOME of them watch! Geez.... For that matter, I think you might find that only a minority, if a large minority, watch sitcoms on a regular basis. The others watch sports events, the news, police shows, MTV, whatever. Wanna bet? Joan

To: The Philosopher who wrote (36874)	5/6/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Christopher, it was the LITTLE BOYS who read The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and biographies of such luminaries as Wyatt Earp and Daniel Boone. I can assure you that the LITTLE GIRLS didn't give a hoot or a holler about the Hardy Boys or Tom Swift, or about what you say was the "common culture" of your generation -- the Wild West. You see how tricky it can be to posit a "common culture" supposedly shared by the children (or adults) of any generation, if the tastes of a limited segment (in this case, boys) serve as the sole criterion. <g> Joan