Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie Brown's "good grief!" an exclamation of fundamental Angst? Does Linus' blanket have a deep symbolic meaning? Such questions may sound like ways to take the fun out of Charles Schulz's famous comic strip Peanuts. But Robert L. Short, 32, a graduate student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, argues not only amusingly but also convincingly that Peanuts indeed has intentional theological significance...
...according to St. Paul, is worshiping any god but God. In Schulz's "child's garden of reverses," says Short, false idols are plentiful, and the wages of sin are paid in terms of an "emotional clobbering." Thus Linus' beloved blanket-"only one yard of outing flannel stands between me and a nervous breakdown" -is constantly threatened by the dog Snoopy or the visiting grandmother who disapproves of such habits (and drinks 32 cups of coffee a day). Lucy's love for Schroeder goes unrequited; the heart of the little blond pianist belongs only to Beethoven...
...Blanket Solution. For all that, no product has so far provoked as many uneasy stirrings in the Common Market as the ordinary blanket. When they sleep, the French like to tuck in their blankets, and they thus require a wider blanket than the citizens of other nations. The Germans, on the other hand, sleep with covers untucked, and the much larger blankets liked by the French irritate them by dragging on the floor. The blanket business is by no means Europe's biggest, but it clearly will have to come up with a physiological solution agreeable to all-perhaps...
These motions, first in a series of six which the Faculty will debate, were introduced by Paul M. Doty, chairman of the Special Committee to Review General Education, after he had withdrawn his motion for blanket approval of his Committee's report...
...drab coal-mining towns of the Ruhr and the Saar, the mood was as grey as the fall weather that lay over the countryside in a chill and foggy blanket. The roll of muffled drums echoed through the streets as thousands of miners and their families silently marched in protest, bearing black flags and signs pleading for government action to save their jobs. Their protest was too late. Last week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West Germany's coal and employ more than 60,000 miners, fully...