Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors of the Harvard Lampoon had been temporarily relieved to discover that it was only the rival Harvard Crimson, not an outraged Radcliffe mother, that had started the fuss over the off-color cartoons in the parody issue called Pontoon (TIME, Nov. 13). But by last week Poonsters were finding very little humor in the upshot. After a month of evidence-gathering, Middlesex County District Attorney George E. Thompson went before a grand jury, got an indictment against "Harvard Lampoon, Inc." for "selling and distributing" obscene pamphlets...
...Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
John Steinbeck fared even worse, but made less fuss about his failure. His novelette, Burning Bright (produced also as a play that flopped), was a slick but transparently thin plea for universal love. Robert Penn Warren went back to his native Kentucky for a frontier novel of violence and tortured emotions, World Enough and Time. It had power and murkiness in about equal proportions...
Maybe we in this pure and raticed four and one-half to one educational (co, that is) institution are just uninformed on life, but we can't see all the fuss being raised about them. We felt that "The Pontoon" was funny in places, flat in places, period...
...Louis said yesterday, in reply to John "Ox" DaGrosa's request that he be barred from boxing in his own best interests, "that he would not raise a fuss if he were over barred for failing to measure up to physical requirements...