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...burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland Owl, a bedraggled Perelmanesque pedant. Churchy LaFemme, a poetic turtle, reveled in alliterative aubades: "Whence that wince, my wench?" At Christmas time, Albert the cigar-smoking alligator led his Okefenokee swamp singers in newly shined carols: Deck us all with Boston Charlie/ Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo...
...Kelly served as a civilian with the Army's foreign-language unit, where he picked up a special affection for the Southern dialect that was to become the patois of Pogo. (Though Kelly began using the Okefenokee setting in cartoons in 1942, he did not visit the swamp until 1955.) In 1948 he joined the short-lived New York Star as art director, editorial adviser and political cartoonist; he also donated Pogo strips to the impoverished paper. The Star folded the following year, but Pogo survived in the New York Post...
...houseparty in "The Grande Bouffe" is entirely without glamour. You'll remember in "La Dolce Vita" the character of Paola the Innocent who represents the possibility of a higher and finer life than the one Marcello slips into. Here, Marcello has no options--he's sunk, irretrievably, in a swamp of self-indulgence...
...country. The rich businessmen and the suffering they brought have been banished from the island. The Cuban people have gained a sense of purpose, a growing feeling of dignity, and the rest of Latin America looks to the country as a beacon marking the path out of the swamp of underdevelopment and oppression caused by imperial exploitation...
...would have to consider whether counseling duties should be shifted from the freshman dean's office to the Houses. Yale's integration of freshmen into colleges has overloaded the college staffs and at Harvard, where there is only one more House but a much larger student body, freshmen could swamp the House staffs. Either the freshmen dean's office will be maintained or Harvard must build additional Houses or increase considerably House staffs to deal with the influx of freshmen...