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...Harvey Kurtzman is somebody who comes to mind all the time. Harvey Kurtzman was the guy who did Mad comics, created Mad. And I remember being kind of 10 years old and seeing this paperback reprint of some of the early Mad comics--it included something called Micky Rodent. And I know that this created a deep scar and I spent the rest of my adult life working it out.... That there was something sinister beneath the surface was made clear in this Micky Rodent Strip, in which the Disney Police are dragging off Horace Horsecollar in panel one because...
...case that crystallized church-state separation doctrine, Lemon v. Kurtzman, came in 1971, when the court struck down Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws that set subsidies for the salaries of parochial school teachers. Referring to earlier cases, the Justices proposed a threefold test to determine the permissibility of government activities that touched the religious realm. First, state action must have a secular purpose. Second, the primary effect of the action must neither advance nor inhibit religion. And finally, there should be no "excessive entanglement" between church and state...
...because it benefited the children. But funds could not go directly to the school involved because tax money could not be used to support any "institution which teaches the tenets and faith of any church." In 1971 the court strengthened that position further when it ruled in Lemon v. Kurtzman that the state could not reimburse private religious schools for the costs of teaching secular subjects. Chief Justice Warren Burger set forth a stiff tripartite test for legitimate government aid. There must be a secular purpose; the principal effect must neither advance nor limit religion; nothing done should foster...
This Disney land was always a world so rich and rigid that it was ripe for satire. In 1954 Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book burlesqued the Disney cartoon world, with its talking animals wearing three-fingered gloves, its ducks in sailor suits but no pants, and a mouse named Minnie "with lipstick and eyelashes and a dress with high-heeled shoes; a mouse, ten times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved...
...debate over the homeless came to the fore as a jury deliberated in a murder trial last week. David Kurtzman, 18, a brawny cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School in Santa Barbara, was accused (along with a pal, who will be tried later) of the knife murder of a homeless man whom they found sleeping in a park one night last August. The schoolmates are charged with stabbing Michael Stephenson, an unemployed house painter, 17 times, then slashing his throat. It was the second murder of a homeless person in Santa Barbara in nine months. Kurtzman admitted the killing, but defended...