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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...
Love in a Home (Doris Day; Columbia). A warm sentiment from the show Li'l Abner: "You can tell when you open the door ... if there's love in a home...
There is no excuse to review The World of Li'l Abner. As John Steinbeck says in his introduction, "It is my claim that Capp is probably the greatest contemporary writer." Everybody who has followed Li'l Abner through the years knows this, and the rest don't deserve to. So the idea of an introductory volume is inherently ridiculous...
Although Capp planned the volume to have hard covers and dignity, this edition has soft covers and dignity. On the front cover set against a picture representing Sadie Hawkins Day musical note appears which apparently refers to the musical comedy Li'l Abner, for which there are also a few words of advertisement. On the back cover there is a picture of Al Capp grinning. Inside are Dumpington Van Lump, P. Fangsgood Droolsby, Big Barnsmall, the outside man at the Skonk Works, Joe Btfsplk, the world's greatest jinx, and Fearless Fosdick, all of whom have their imitators in life...
...each of the ten archetypal adventures, Li'l Abner and his friends are wriggled out of one difficulty only to fall into another. Victim of Capp's slightest whim, even Li'l Abner's pig must (barely) wriggle out of being turned into the Ecstasy Sauce that Bounder J. Roundheels must have for the Roast Rump of Tree Dwelling Elephant that will get him into the Gourmet's Club. From the first Sadie Hawkins' Day episode in which L'l Abner wriggles out of Daisy Mae's arms into those of a jackass, to the last where he is "hopelessly...