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Charlie's chief tormentor, Lucy van Pelt, is a tiny, black-haired termagant, a caricature of the modern aggressive female. "Here's a perfect parody of what American life is supposed to be," says Pogo's creator Walt Kelly: "The ineffectual male and the domineering female." "Blockhead!" Lucy shouts at Charlie, and the insult throws him into a somersault. When she has outwitted him, she purrs: "I admire your boundless faith in human nature." Bellows this girl who aspires to go to military school: "I don't want any downs-I just want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Blind, Deaf Blockhead. Fyodor has no politics (except to prefer a regime where "there is no equality and no authorities either"); he does not hanker for the Return; he does not brood on the past or hope for the future. His fellow emigres regard him as "a useless handicraftsman," a "trickster" and an "arabesquer," and he in turn regards the typical Russian emigre intellectual as "blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lord of Language | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...surprising variety of registers. Mr. Abbott, actor, director, and critic, is Sir Sampson Legend, Valentino's Squire Western of a father. Occasionally he seems to slip from gruffness into his accustomed wearied and mannered style, but for the most part his Legend is every bit the landed Tory blockhead...

Author: By Mr. Hiss, | Title: Love for Love | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Respectively, a puppet, and hence "a politician acting under an outsider's order"; a Scottish word for common sense; a soup for prisoners or sailors; a mixture of rum and spruce beer; and a blockhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Squishops & Jobbernowls | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Jacqueline Touch | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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