Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeat; the above statements contain a challenge which cannot go unanswered. First, in the past decade Harvard has had not two riots, as is alleged, but four. In addition to the Pogo and Diploma Riots there were the Vellucci Riot of 1956 and the Fight Mental Health protests...
...fact student riots in the "home of the brave" are now incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands. Harvard University, for example, has yielded two major demonstrations during this past decade (both, of course, in the mild weather of late spring) when students mutinied in 1952 for "Pogo for President" and in 1961 for retaining Latin-inscribed diplomas...
...continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace" or 4,000 clean-cut Harvard students shouting as one man: "Latin si, Pusey no"? And which is more effective; students vaguely "proclaiming their political ideals" in scattered cities or 1600 Harvard men concentrated on Cambridge making a specific demand: Pogo for President...
...amazed to find a great omission in your article on trading stamps [Oct. 26]. Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, has solved...
...late U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...