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...economizing on words and lines, Schulz produces a lean, spare, dryly witty strip that avoids the archness and sentimentality of most comics that deal with children. With the barely perceptible wriggle of a line, he can convey a pathos and tenderness beyond the reach of most of his colleagues. The dots at either end of Charlie's mouth sum up six years of concentrated worry. So subtle is Schulz's drawing that some of his best panels are wordless -as when the Peanuts are gathered to observe somberly the first snowflake of winter...
Heavy-handed as many Northern cartoonists were, their indignant caricatures were more effective than their attempts to convey pity or shame. Though not so mawkish as some of his colleagues, Herblock at week's end sketched the murdered minister's grave. Propped against the headstone was a crown of thorns...
...unlike the fading School of Paris surface-obsessed abstractionists, he plays with figurative analogies. And he broods over his titles as if they were poetic essays, giving to them all the multiple layers of meaning he intends his paintings to convey. Words, he believes, are important. Hundertwasser ("hundred waters" in German) should know. He was originally christened more prosaically Fríedrich Stowasser ("dammed-up water"). If nothing else, he has learned how to let loose...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...
Roeder and Dunning are not quite sure why the trick works. The moth's sounds may convey the message that the sender is not good to eat, or in some way they may deceive the bat's echo-location system. Whatever the moth clicks do, they are as effective as any man-made radar jammer...