Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than once the miseries of Cartoonist Al Capp's (Li'l Abner) mythical, snowbound Slobs, "dropping dad from all kinds starwation," have found not too exaggerated counterparts in reality. In eastern Europe there were at least two genuine foreign envoys in straits almost as dire as the Slobbovian Ambassador...
...great many graduate students and young professional people I have known follow Li'l Abner regularly, and seem to enjoy it without shame. Perhaps they have only a desire for "escape"; I prefer to think that they have a lively sense of humor, even though educated...
...Apparently the political insinuation that Mr. Capp has presented in Li'l Abner was missed by Mr. Killinger. . . . True, Lena the Hyena was undoubtedly created to rib Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould; ah, but Lower Slobbovia was also created, I am sure, to rib a certain country. What more appropriate place than in Foreign News could the item have been placed...
...American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...
...bodies cooled and dawn of the twelfth day, the day of burial, began to streak the temple walls, the priests carried the charred remnants of the abbot and his aide to a pair of graves a li away. The 36 judges and executioners listed the dead men's crimes on a great sheet of yellow paper and nailed it near the temple doors. Solemnly, then, the priests surrendered to the police, said: "We have chosen to perish together...