Word: capp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abner. A lusty copy of Al Capp's comic-strip characters, with some lilting Dogpatch music. In MONTREAL...
Another use that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates...
...Capp claims to have a deep respect for Harvard--tempered, however, by amusement. Born in New Haven as the son of a Yalie, he first came to Cambridge in 1936 as a student in a summer course in composition and short story writing. After about three weeks, he dropped out, "in order to help the instructor, who seemed in most desperate need of help." At this time, Capp moved from his home on Brattle Street and took up residence in New Hampshire. He returned to Cambridge eight years...
Since then, he has had some association with Harvard nearly every week; he is frequently called to speak and to moderate discussions at the Law School Forum and similar events. There is a special art, Capp says, in handling a Harvard audience. It must be treated with "affectionate contempt." A Harvard audience has to be abused, in order to quiet it down," he adds...
...Capp cites an occasion when he and fellow cartoonist Walt Kelly were invited to speak to the Harvard New Delhi Society." They were "horrified...