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...comics, the new strips like Peanuts should come as a welcome relief. Taking the comics, in their own way, as seriously as Europeans, some Americans have castigated the funnies for offering a distorted, often brutalized view of life. In Love & Death, a brilliant indictment of the medium, Folklorist Gershon Legman writes: "Children are not allowed to fantasy themselves as actually revolting against authority-as actually killing their fathers. A literature frankly offering such fantasies would be outlawed overnight. But in the identifications available in the comic strips-in the character of the Katzenjammer Kids, in the kewpie-doll character...
Died. James Frank Dobie, 75, folklorist of the U.S. Southwest; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex. He called himself a Texian, adding the i and defining it as "one of the old rocks of the state." That he was, spending his life slouching across the land in battered Stetson and rundown boots, collecting all the tales, true or tall, of oil and gold, sheriffs and outlaws, then spinning them out in humorously irreverent lectures as the University of Texas' "Professor Pancho" and weaving them into 21 books, of which Coronado's Children and The Mustangs were among...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 2 of Folklorist J. Frank Dobie's recollections of the Old West...
Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...