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All My Children
From its January 5, 1970, debut, soap opera All My Children, with its emphasis on young love and such topical issues as abortion, the Vietnam War, and the environment, attracted colleg...
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Critical Essay by R. E. Johnson, Jr.
A structuralist study of [All My Children] might begin by trying to reconstruct and describe one feature or phase of the relationship between the writer and the au...
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Critical Essay by Time
[Agnes Nixon has welded Irna] Phillips' home truths to such trendy themes as cervical cancer, racial prejudice and drug addiction. Nixon has at one time or another writte...
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Critical Essay by Dan Wakefield
The "All My Children" phenomenon is part of a confluence of different forces that are making soap opera respectable….
I am not about to stake a the...
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Critical Essay by Manuela Soares
All My Children is a light-hearted soap—perhaps the only light-hearted soap on the air. It may also be characterized as a home-and-family soap, in the doctor-la...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Warrick with Don Preston
[Nixon's] inventive mind spins out a constant skein of exciting and relevant plots that have made All My Children the leading show in the daytime...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Harrington
A report in The Times heralding ABC-TV's new soap opera, "All My Children," was headlined: "Social Activism Grips Soap Opera; Heroine...
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Critical Essay by Agnes Nixon
As the creator-writer of both "One Life To Live" and "All My Children," two soap operas of which Terry Ann Knopf was particularly critical in ...
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Critical Essay by Terry Ann Knopf
Given Ms. Nixon's involvement in the more creative aspects of television, I am especially dismayed by her remarks insofar as they reveal qualities all too comm...
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All My Children
Critical Essay by R. E. Johnson, Jr.
