Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for boyhood aspirations, Feiffer never wanted to be anything but a cartoonist. When asked what he really wanted to do in life, he immediately replied, "I'm doing it," and added that he would continue "until they catch on to me." For a while, Feiffer attended the Pratt Institute of Art in New York where, as he says, he learned "very little." "But," he confesses, "that was probably more my fault than theirs...
...thought society was "sick," Feiffer replied, "I pick up a newspaper in the morning, and it's the only logical conclusion I can come to." (He is particularly disturbed about nuclear tests, radiation fallout, etc. as is evidenced by his section in Passionella entitled "Bomb.") "All I'm doing is counting heads...
...folk music: "I used to be wild about folk songs, but now, after ten years of listening to them, I'm a little less wild. Folk music is like all good things; it attracts people who are pretentious and affectacious, but that doesn't detract from the songs themselves...
...might be published next year, "maybe it will be something about the Presidential elections." "My next project" he said, "will be a screen play. Someone came along one day and said, 'How'd you like to write a movie script?' I said, 'Gee, yeah.' So, this summer I'm going to try. It's something I've always wanted...
...developments, such as more rigid plastics and aluminum resistant to chlorine, come on the market, the wave of pool construction is expected to rise rapidly. Says Robert M. Hoffman, publisher of Swimming Pool Age: "In five to ten years pool prices will be reduced to between $1,000 and $1,500, and there will be no limit to who will...