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Word: duvoisin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adult may well conclude that the savage world of childhood has been wonderfully pacified and cleaned up since he first heard those Grimm stories or Gulliver made his horrible travels. In The Happy Hunter (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), for example, Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Condemned Playground | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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