Word: tarzanitis
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...what Paar called "crotch shots" of girdles and panties running side by side with reports on the world's most crucial news. Moving onward and downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold's safe arrival at N'dola to show how inaccurate the printed word...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. In a masterful spoof on the mess in Africa, chiefly at the expense of the retreating British Empire, the author proves himself a Tarzan of the japes...
...Prime Minister of the Colony laughed and picked at the hard skin on the ball of his foot"). Except for a dramatically faulty attempt to give Jimmy a realistic love affair, out of keeping with the otherwise admirably sustained, two-dimensional tone of spoof, Jimmy Riddle emerges a masterful Tarzan of the japes...
...double bedrooms and a single, two private baths, kitchen, sitting room and dining room ($70 a night); food, bought at a local store, comes with the free service of a cook-houseboy. linen, cutlery, crockery. Hunters can also outfit themselves in Tanganyika with a safari the likes of which Tarzan never saw: all manner of bearers and boys, Land Rovers, guns, white hunters, impeccable service-right down to fine English china, antique silver, iced martinis and nine-course meals (lobster remoulade, filet mignon. etc., etc.). Cordon Rouge '49, and a snifter of brandy. As in all East Africa, travelers...
Wyss piously proclaimed his tale to be a tract intended to teach children "how blessed are the results of patient continuance in well-doing." What he actually wrote was a sort of sissified, Swissified Tarzan story, describing a number of innocently improbable adventures that took place on an amusingly improbable tropical island populated with an absolutely absurd fauna of Asiatic tigers, African lions, Australian kangaroos, Amazonian anacondas, North American grouse, Mongolian asses and Swiss prigs...