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| | On Sesame Street, It's All Show by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Autumn 1995 |
 | | In this way, the Sesame Street tot is educated not in literacy but in television—its grammar, its rhythms, its stars, and, most subtly of all, its cool posture of the contemporary ironist too superior for curiosity, enchantment, or ideals. |
 | | Sesame Street was born in the heated political atmosphere of the 1960s. |
 | | Sesame Street was hip, urban—the creators believed they were taking a risk when they decided on a city street instead of the familiar picket-fence back-drop—and enlightened, as evidenced by it’s multiracial cast and its noncommercial broadcast home. |
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