Word: funke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
Most of the new works are by California artists who practice a particularly virulent form of pop art known as "funk," the aim of which seems to be to put on everything and everyone in sight. Mentor of the group is San Francisco Sculptor Peter Voulkos, now 44, who a decade ago at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used...
...every page of the jumbled manuscript out of Stone, and since the pages were not numbered, she had to spread them out on her living-room floor and rearrange them before the book was in shape for submission. Later, when Stone went into a navy-blue funk, she made him finish the novel. She also made him number his pages...
Wilfred J. Funk and Norman Lewis...
...Starting in February, however, New York will get a new Sunday paper, the Knickerbocker News. Put out by the publishers of Funk & Wagnall's Dictionary, it will contain many of the columnists, comics and features that used to appear in the World Journal Tribune but now have no New York outlet, although they are carried by out-of-town papers...