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...William Penn was a tireless proponent of charity: 'The best recreation is to do good." There will be opportunity for lighter pursuits "when the pale faces are more commiserated, the pinched bellies relieved and the naked backs clothed, when the famished poor, the distressed widow and the helpless orphan are provided for." That notorious moralist Cotton Mather wrote: "If any man ask, Why is it so necessary to do good? I must say, it sounds not like the question of a good...
Another commercial trend is juvenile creations by celebrities. In Mandy (Harper & Row; $4.95), Julie Andrews tells about an eponymous orphan girl who longs for a family, finds a deserted cottage outside the orphanage grounds, and is adopted by the lord of the local manor. Though Mandy is selling like The Whole Earth Catalog, it mainly proves that Julie Andrews has fondly read The Secret Garden and deserves every success as a singer and film actress...
While the political spectrum of the regular comic strips ranges from the moderately liberal (Pogo) to the arch-conservative (Little Orphan Annie), a relatively new phenomenon, underground comics, is pursuing radical political and sexual themes that their aboveground brothers would never dare to touch. Begun in the mid-'60s, the undergrounds, or head comic books, such as Zap and Despair and strips in papers like the Berkeley Barb and Manhattan's East Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts...
...modern world, he seems to say, only the man with superpowers can survive and prosper. Still, though comics are indeed a popular art form, it is going a bit far to compare, as Critic Maurice Horn does, Gasoline Alley to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Little Orphan Annie to the works of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. As Mammy Yokum might say: "Some folks don't know when to stop...
...move into his trailer. Floyd's working life consists of standing at the corner by the school with STOP stenciled on the back of his jacket and GO on the front of his plastic helmet. At other times he walks with his 11-year-old great-nephew, an orphan he never asked for, to the post office to tell the man in charge there how things should...