Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Party's organ, Swarajya Rajagopalachari assailed India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "this claptrap Goa action. No cartoon can do full justice to the contradictions of our international peace policy arising out of Mr. Nehru's action. India has helped undermine the prestige and power of the U.N. Security Council. India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power." India, continued Rajagopalachari, had claimed that its action was based on anticolonialist grounds, yet had courted a Soviet veto of the U.N. request for a cease-fire even...
Behrendt's cartoon was memorable-but in fact, the eagle, the lion, the lamb and the bear were far from harmonizing about peace on earth. And it was a gloomy day when President John Kennedy arrived in Bermuda last week for his fourth series of somber talks this year with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Sitting in Hamilton's pale pink Government House. Kennedy and Macmillan conversed for as long as five hours at a stretch-with only a few minutes out for tea-but. inevitably, they were able to produce little in the way of hard solutions...
...Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
...Jewish practices as circumcision, bar mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve years, went a respected leader of Leningrad Jewry, Gedalia Pechersky, 60, along with five other prominent Leningrad and Moscow Jews...
...Fifth Annual International Film Festival went to Animas Trujano, a Mexican picture about a slow-witted Zapotec Indian, played, curiously enough, by Japan's Toshiro Mifune. But -as is customary at film festivals-the most talked-about film in town was not the big winner. It was a cartoon from Communist Yugoslavia called Ersatz...