Word: cartoonable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yellow Kid. The idea for the school goes back to 1892 and New York World Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who helped usher in a new era of U.S. journalism, replete with screaming headlines and a cartoon character called the Yellow Kid who gave the era its name. But Pulitzer dreamed of higher things and a college that would help achieve them. "It will be the object of the college to make better journalists, who will make better newspapers, which will better serve the public." Harvard was approached, but its faculty considered journalism on a par with lathe turning. Columbia finally...
...Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated...
...house committee sponsors cartoon shows and wild annual Bierstube; the music committee presents student and professional concerts; the Ford Foundation fund supports a wide variety of dinner guests and speakers; and from a variety of sources comes the boar's head ceremony and ribald play after the Christmas dinner...
...reader is well ahead of these cartoon types: half the book is over before they have grasped the fact that there are no outside commitments whatever left to keep them all from integrating in the nicest way. But the children (abandoned by Wylie's old enemy-their Mom) have the right word for all this horror show. "Geography," they say as they tend their lessons down below. "Geography, fui!" Also, history, philosophy, art, science and probably theology. In the outcome of the Wylie fable, all these little things are left in the hands of the Australians...
...Photographer Andreas and Laurence, a priest. The museum's print curator, William Lieberman, persuaded the family to let them be shown for the first time. The most surprising works are the colored comics pages done in Germany for the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906. For the first cartoon, Feininger drew a caricature of himself holding his cast of characters by strings like marionettes. He called himself "Uncle Feininger," and his cast included the Kin-der-Kids and the appealing Wee Willie Winkie, who thought that every object in the world-trees, trains, puddles and clouds-had faces and feelings...