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Comics have espoused many causes; the strips have been crammed with all kinds of propaganda. But Peanuts is the leader of a refreshing new breed that takes an unprecedented interest in the basics of life. Love, hate, togetherness, solitude, the alienation in an age of anxiety-such topics are so deftly explored by Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts crew that readers who would not sit still for a sermon readily devour the sermon-like cartoons. Some 60 million people follow the strip in 700 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and 71 abroad. Peanuts is translated into...
However merited such criticism, it thankfully does not apply to Peanuts and his breed. The newcomers offer shrewd insight and warm affirmation without stooping to violence or escapism. Gingerly, tentatively but hopefully, the comics are beginning to comment on life, confront social issues and satirize some sacred cows. And none of them do this so engagingly-or so successfully-as Charles Schulz's Peanuts...
...segment of five-channel, punched paper tape used to get man's message (known as "input" in the new vocabulary) into the machine. The story throws new light on how pervasive the computer is becoming in our society, but it also makes clear that it is a new breed of technician-human-who gives the machine its logic...
...Matterhorn, which is higher [14,780 ft.], and I didn't need the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." That was all right with Bobby. "I didn't really enjoy any part of it," he admitted frankly, "but I can understand why people like climbing. They are a special breed of men." Henceforth, he added, "I'm going to stay on the first floor of my house. I have nine children...
Because computer technology is so new and computers require such sensitive handling, a new breed of specialists has grown up to tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive...