Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts: "I worry about almost all there is in life to worry about, and because I worry, Charlie Brown has to worry...
...Class Committee is considering inviting Garry Trudeau, author of the comic strip "Doonesbury," as speaker on Class Day, Aaron J. Alter '79, class marshall, said Thursday...
Directors were faced with that very question, and it forced them to be creative in answering it. Welles devised special comic roles and dances; Frank used a series of ex-vaudevillians in three-minute stints...
...beginning Orton sat at Halliwell's feet, content to type his novels. Gradually he began making suggestions, then started collaborating. Finally he struck out on his own, demonstrating a talent for the comic and bizarre that Halliwell could admire but never imitate. As Orton's confidence grew, Halliwell's diminished, leaving, at the end, only the dangerous embers of envy and resentment...
...prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains a tantalizing conjecture. What he did achieve is clear enough, however, and perhaps Lahrs biography will bring him the American recognition he deserves but has never had, a memorial to the comic genius that was and might have been...