Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
...cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen. Said Strip-Father Low: World Citizen is an "ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities...
...word for the sponsors. Often, he drags other Roosevelts into the spiel: "The other day we were driving in from the country and one of the children suddenly called out that there was a great, big bird in the sky . . . Sure enough, there it was, the great big Flamingo blimp, advertising Flamingo orange juice . . ." or ". . . In fact, Mother. I remember when you used to buy numbers of the famous Emerson portables to give away as Christmas presents...
...Fort Worth to Kansas City is a matter of two hours, but for the B-36 bomber that waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some 30 hours and its course would take it over 7,000 miles. Shortly after noon, the long, blimp-nosed craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians. She did not have an atom bomb...
...common man'; we have it already, "and it has only produced the commonest man, the impersonal and irresponsible and uprooted massman . . . The century of the common man means a century of sterile and tyrannic philistinism, whether it be a philistinism of right or of left, of Colonel Blimp or of Comrade Blimp. A century that returns to the humanist ideal of the individual man must hold equally aloof from George Babbitt and Gaylord Babbitt...