Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...
Sued for Divorce. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 65, tireless biographer of Tarzan; by Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles...
There has probably never been a literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is to youngsters today. Gilbert Patten, under the pseudonym of "Burt L. Standish," wrote the first Merriwell book in 1896, kept on writing at the rate of 20,000 or more words a week for nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers...
...probably the masculine ideal which . . . carries supreme strength and masculine ruggedness. . . ." Those heroes of the comic strips, Tarzan, Superman and Li'l Abner...
...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...