17 OCTOBER 1970, page 27

Television

American moods Patrick Skene CATLING Westerlies prevail across the North Atlantic, so television is sensibly helping us to brace ourselves against the storms of 'future shock'......

Pop

Mind and body DUNCAN FALLOWELL The advantage, if you can bear to call it that, of the growing use of electronic devices in pop is that it proves that such new musical quantities......

Facts And Ironies

PENELOPE HOUSTON There are moments in the cinema when it's a relief to get away from the pounding in- sistence of the personal problem, the feeling of being shut up in the dark......