Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every meeting," he said, "I get two-thirds of the answer to inflation." Business blames labor and Government. Labor blames business and Government. And Government blames business and labor. Strauss is thinking of stealing from Pogo and plastering in every office in America this motto: "I have met the inflater...
Harvard plays City College of New York in the Big Town of Friday, December 9. The Beavers won the City University Championship last year paced by a backcourt of Rich Silvera and Ken "Pogo" Collins. Silvera averaged 16.6 points per game last year and is CCNY's all-time leading scorer with over 1300 career points...
...Capp did not like: he made the comic folk of Dogpatch share their panels with radical folk singer Joanie Phoanie and hairy thugs from S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything). Capp gradually alienated his college-age audience, which switched to more congenial strips like Walt Kelly's Pogo and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Today fewer than 400 papers still carry Li'l Abner. For a while, Capp remained a perverse favorite on the campus lecture circuit. But he became something of a recluse after 1972, when a judge in Eau Claire, Wis., fined...
Hooft, who finished the night with 16 points, netted a hanging jumper to up the lead to ten before CCNY guard Ken "Pogo" Collins's twisting drive made...
...sequential boxcar format of the comics. As any pop-culture devotee knows, Doonesbury is not the first strip to make funnies a political forum. A generation ago, Al Capp's Li'l Abner was peopled with Senators, robber barons and other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools...