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"The Peanuts characters are good mean little bastards," says Al Capp, "eager to hurt each other. That's why they are so delicious. They wound each other with the greatest enthusiasm. Anybody who sees theology in them is a devil worshiper." Maybe so. But there is no doubt that...
A novel that starts with the map of an imaginary tropical island makes a delicious promise of enchantment-as every reader knows who ever pored over the frontispiece chart in Treasure Island. Novelist Herman Wouk knows the pull of that enchantment. Six years ago, he fled the Manhattan theatrical and...
"That Mercein, he's a big stud," he was saying (the coaches never considered, at least to us, the delicious possibility that Yale's star fullback might not play). "He's the spark of the team. They're a great comeback team, they love to come back at you in...
Sir: Whether the derivation of "Camp" comes from the low "Aussie" saloons, or from the police rating "K.M.P." (Known Male Prostitute), or from the World War II concentration camps, where homosexuality was supposedly rife, "Camp" is here to stay. True-the vulgar and outrageous is Camp. What could be more...
∙ PETR EFIMOVICH SHELEST, 56, bald and beaming protege of fellow Ukrainian Podgorny (whom he succeeded as First Secretary of the Ukraine), won delicious revenge with his appointment to the Presidium. In Budapest last April, Shelest was singled out publicly by Khrushchev as the "culprit" who had failed to deliver...