Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book does succeed in recreating the images New Yorkers saw on television and read in the newspapers. Race Riots also (unconsciouslv, I suspect), introduces a new motive, one that at the time seemed unthinkable: for some the riots were simply a release (like a Pogo, diploma, or sycamore riot), a chance to use individual conscience in mass consciousness...
...Extremism has had its say," Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, told his Ford Hall Forum audience last night. "We need more self-examination, less accusation of the other fellow...
Some newspaper publishers have refused to print the regular Pogo cartoons during the election campaign. To these papers, Kelly sells a second series of cartoons, populated entirely with "bunny-rabbits...
...whether Titan II had been successfully modified for the man-in-space program. It used a different guidance system and many safety devices to protect the lives of the astronauts whom it will carry later in the program. The Titan's engines were modified to reduce its characteristic "pogo-stick" (up-and-down) vibration, which might incapacitate a human crew. Reports came back that everything worked fine...
...worse of all, and most difficult to remedy, was the pogo-stick quality of actors' sensitivity. When some inspired foolishness by Martin, Segall, or Miss Adams seemed to have lifted the show to greatness at last, one failure to respond or another sent it pludging down again...