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gathered together around the table not only to break bread, but to share the day’s experiences. Today, except in families that eschew television at meal times, dinner is eaten silently in deference to a popular sitcom or new program. Witness the sad state of table manners among adolescents and young adults today. Without parental training at table, children devise the most appalling methods of conveying food to their mouths, and if left uncorrected carry these barbarisms into adulthood. As a result, etiquette schools have sprung up around the country to train embarrassed young executives in courtesies they should have learned under their parents’ watchful eye.
For these and other good reasons, I am convinced that our quality of life would actually be enhanced by withdrawal from television. 1 yse the word “withdrawal” on purpose, because like a drug, television is seductive and addictive. I confess that 1 myself watch entirely too much of it. It is a temptation at the end of a long and strenuous day to distract one’s self with the undemanding fare of the television.
1 enjoy one advantage over most
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