Word: punk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then this cat named Robert Greenfield comes along in the October issue of Cavalier and tries to tell us that Richard Farina was an ambitious grubby little punk or at best was a pitifully insecure social climber...
...when Lee Replogle, a 46-year-old Forest Service worker, sees a big bull elk about to gore his pet hound and shoots him in a reflex of instant anger. Elk are out of season, and Replogle has been a dutiful Government employee. But he sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing out 700 Ibs. of poached elk meat, despite or perhaps inspired...
...undersigned condemn the hypocritical racist lies and slander of Portfolio Pig Pusey, Faculty Flunkey Ford, patrician punk von Stade ("I just can't believe our darkies could do this--even a small group of them"), and Weenie Whizzer Watson, as mad-dog Insanity and naked aggression against the People...
...does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only...
Soggy Dove. In most of his cartoons, Oliphant gets in second thoughts, as it were, by using a little penguin called Punk, who furnishes a kind of subplot. In the underwater cartoon, for instance, a waterlogged dove, bearing a soggy olive branch, tells Punk: "Oh, I just hate this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic...