second thoughts

 

        In the May 25, 1971, New York Times, George Gent wrote:

------------------------- "All in the Family," which stars Carroll O'Connor as Archie and Jean Stapleton as his long suffering wife, opened to a mixed critical reception, 

    ...with some of the East Coast reviewers dismissing the program as unfunny and as a potential contributor to the bigotry it was allegedly spoofing.  

        Many of these same critics later had second thoughts.

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