Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...
...surface, Forster's tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...
...would have thrown in what he knew about animals. If he looked at a picture magazine or listened to a radio serial during that time, he might have used words that would not otherwise occur to him. The modern kid uses a lot of words picked up from movies, comic books and newspapers, says Dr. Seashore. He estimates that the average kid starting school can identify about 17,000 basic words (e.g., loyal), and from them derive the meaning of about 6,000 more words e.g., loyalist...
...over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
Spinach v. Gin. Americans who wonder what existentialism is about will find a simplified translation in the comic strip Popeye, whose "I am what I am!" is existentialism stripped of its dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy...