Word: penrods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened by an exquisite sense of self-parody, conjured up Americana, suggestions of snake-oil peddlers, backwoods Shakespeareans, the gentle rapscallionry of Penrod Schofield's or Pudd'nhead Wilson's world. Before he died of a pulmonary embolism at 73, Everett McKinley Dirksen had himself become a unique object of Americana...
...teen-ager used to be that nice adolescent next door, witness Sheila James in the Stu Erwin Show, Billy Gray in Father Knows Best, and Tony Dow in Leave It to Beaver. The neo-Penrod type was stereotyped by Ricky Nelson, who grew into and out of adolescence before the entire nation on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through the gap in the hedge that separates adolescence from manhood...
...will stay there out of their own essentially good nature. America's alltime young hero is Huck Finn, but not in the role of the brave rebel which serious critics (including T. S. Eliot) have cast him in, but in the safe and comfortable role of a backwoods Penrod or Andy Hardy-the eternally lovable bad boy. Until very recently, the sheltered and privileged American young gladly went along with that role. Their hell-raising was equally far removed from Werther's despair and the political barricades. The U.S. was thus enabled to go on worshiping youth without...
...novel, Negro Gordon Parks, a talented and successful LIFE photographer, grew up in a small Kansas town in the 1920s. His unabashed nostalgia for what was good there, blended with sharp recollections of staggering violence and fear, makes an immensely readable, sometimes unsettling book-a kind of cross between Penrod and Native Son. Coming out just now, the book will probably be scrutinized by blacks and whites alike for a significance it lays no claim to. But only extremists will disagree with its clear moral-not new but worth repeating: the hate a Negro feels can be almost as destructive...