Arts & Manners: Open Letters

Dear Laura Z. Hobson:

I have read your meticulously researched article in the New York Times critical of All in the Family, and I must say that I find myself sympathetic to your feeling that the show pulls its punches and is indeed in danger of making a lovable fellow out of its chief bigot, Archie Bunker. That position has been taken by others, as you may know, particularly in England where All in the Family had its origin in a series called Till Death Do Us Part, which was apparently stronger stuff.

MW

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Dear Laura Z. Hobson:

I have read your meticulously researched article in the New York Times critical of All in the Family, and I must say that I find myself sympathetic to your feeling that the show pulls its punches and is indeed in danger of making a lovable fellow out of its chief bigot, Archie Bunker. That position has been taken by others, as you may know, particularly in England where All in the Family had its origin in a series called Till Death Do Us Part, which was apparently stronger stuff.