Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face are among the most familiar sights; bookstores overflow with Communist propaganda produced locally or imported from Russia, China and Vietminh. In areas where literacy rates are generally very low the Communists have accepted the great truth that the spoken word, the whispering campaign and the picture cartoon are far more potent weapons than the written word...
...Book, and Candle" is alive more because of the novelty of the situations and characters than because of any sparkling writing. At that point, however, the author becomes carried away by the on and offstage witchery. Toward the end, the play assumes the quality of a poor Charles Addams cartoon. A good deal of the enchantment has gone from van Druten's hocus-pocus...
...relatively mild, e.g., the picnic that is invaded by man-sized ants, the cannibal who murmurs his excuse for not eating: "Oh, I like missionary, all right, but missionary doesn't like me." In some of the others, a deeper flavor of misanthropy seeps through. In one cartoon of this sort, a nurse is simply pushing a pram which is fitted with thick steel bars in front of-whatever is inside. In another, as a man is carried away in the talons of a great bird, his wife runs after him crying, "George! George! Drop the keys...
...Scelba reached Modena, he got out of his car to look carefully at a poster. Under the caption "Scelba is in Emilia. He mustn't get out!" a cartoon showed a mouse with Scelba's face caught in a trap. Grimly Scelba climbed back into his car and drove on-still further into the trap...
...Destination Moon" is partially documentary, since a cartoon within the picture itself explains what this rocket business in all about...