Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Buck's "Remembrance of Themes Past" is a case in point. Former Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and co-chairman of the Committee on General Education which produced the Redbook, he was an ardent warrior for improved undergraduate education in the forties and early fifties. But Buck the engaged combattant has become the retired soldier wistfully retelling the pasts' battles. He concludes by saying "I believe that a truly liberal education for today and tomorrow will combine a program of general education, a program of specialism [departmental education], and a collegiate way of living [a house system...
...Tourists. Though Lozach does not intend to return to Gourin ("My kids were born here, and let's face it: it's an easier buck"), many Gourinois do. Samuel Daouphars, 54, was a chef in Manhattan's Au Pêcheur restaurant for ten years before going home with his bundle. Now, like most of the town's 1,000 returned natives, he and his wife own a $20,000 blue and white stone house in Gourin, busy themselves raising flowers and vegetables. "They work hard as hell in America," complains Daouphars. "And all that...
...comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, megacephalic, supersophisticated school tots show up their elders' ignorance. In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, a gawky, hapless buck private makes a hash of military life...
Among others, Joe Palooka has survived 34 years as a world heavyweight boxing champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys...
...Some of the more spirited cartoonists buck, kick and squirm," says a syndicate editor, and Charles Schulz bucks as much as any. He complained about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent...