Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They laughed at Sahl and Pogo, but took one step forward when they received their military greetings. They took The Catcher in the Rye to heart, but rarely ran away from home. They dug the character of Rebel Without a Cause, but concluded that James Dean carried futility on his back like a motorcycle jacket. It was easier to act like Sal Mineo, wronged and quietly suffering. It was simpler to mainline on paperbacks, to get kicks from the hot parts of the Mickey Spillane books or Peyton Place ("With her mouth almost against his, she whispered, 'I didn...
...world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves and to discombobulate Recordkeeping...
...Speaking of the emergence of Walt Kelly's Pogo in the early 1950s. TIME wrote: "Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals: comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy...
...another man, such a compromise might have seemed weak or self-serving. But Kelly, though an undeviating liberal, never viewed himself as a crusader. He was embarrassed when admirers took him or Pogo too seriously. "It is delight which causes laughter," he said, insisting that his political messages were secondary to comedy...