From 1972 to 1981, the Depression Era returned to America through the popular television series, The Waltons. For nearly a decade, American viewers embraced The Waltons into popular culture as a symbol of past family values that were largely absent in...

The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. The series pilot was a TV movie entitled The Homecoming: A...

Not the Waltons If you think your family has problems, go and see Noah Baumbach's new film, Margot at the Wedding, which opened here yesterday. Because believe me, no matter how tense things are at home, your crew are going to...

WILLIAM WALTON Behind the Fac- ade By Susana Walton Oxford University Press. 255 pp. $22.95 THIS CHARMING memoir of the late English composer Sir William Walton (1902-1983) by his Argentinian wife tells two stories-his and hers. His story is the essentially well-known one...

Georgia O'Keeffe's most famous painting "Radiator Building — Night, New York" and 100 other works won't be going to Arkansas if the museum that represents the late artist's estate has its way.Lawyers for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum filed a legal challenge late Monday that seeks...

Wal-Mart gave investors something on Friday they haven't seen in some time: a reason to pour some money into its shares. The world's largest retailer, under pressure by investors to improve its sales, is trimming its store growth as it balances its traditional focus on...

A bobwhite cry breaks the quiet of night among the firs and pines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…. "Good night, Ma." "Good night, John-Boy." "Good night, Pa." "Good night, John-Boy…." and the lights of the Walton house on Walton's Mountain sometime in the early nineteen-thirties dim and a million viewers turn away from their television sets, eyes wet, souls heavy with false memory and hopeless longing. C.B.S. has filled an...

"The Waltons," CBS's gift to viewers who were hoping for one, just one, different show this season, seems strangely out of place until you realize what makes it different: you're being asked to care…. The wonderful and unusual thing about the Waltons is that they come across as real people. Add to that a bit. The really unusual thing about the Waltons is that they're poor. All right, let's concede that these aren't the ghettoized victims of today...

The mode [of "The Waltons"] is almost brazenly sentimental. The narrator is John-Boy, the oldest son, reminiscing from the present. As he puts it, though, the Depression years were harsh, the family was "sustained with gingerbread, laughter and sharing, but, most of all with a wonderful mother and father."