Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your readers would like to be brought up to date concerning some of the characters Mr. Clarke mentioned. First, Superman has decided to keep his superpowers to aid mankind; Wonder Woman has lost her powers and is now simply Diana Prince ("She's still dynamite in a fight"); Robin is in college, while his partner Batman ("the creature of the night") fights crime alone. Green Lantern, who now has a black substitute, has won the best-individual-story and best-continuing-feature awards given by the Academy of Comic Book Arts...
...Woman was into Women's Lib 20 years before Betty Friedan-the comics have always appealed to men more than women, to little boys more than little girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned to writing for the theater...
Despite his nebulous and often contradictory position on foreign policy, in his hard hitting domestic program, he successfully reconciles McGovern the idealist and McGovern, the pragmatist. Campaigning under the lincoln green banner of Robin Hood, he proposes a tax system to "take from the rich and give to the poor" and does everything but call President Nixon the Sheriff of Nottingham. His program includes excess profits tax, an end to oil depletion allowances, a realistic minimum income tax, an increased tax on millionaires, and better consumer protection...
...stand on issues has been consistently bold, if occassionally contradictory, and the idealism of his Robin Hood program does not blind him to the reality of human greed...
...James Robin professor of economics at Yale helped develop the program. "In the future," he said yesterday, more imaging must come from the students." The program is designed to aid students paying for their own education he said by "not saddling them with debts that disregard their ability...