Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walt Kelly is usually preaching a sermon, and that--aside from his wonderful drawings--is a secret of his charm. The sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they...
...freezing stage, knock out the stomach's acid factory more completely, and give the patient relief for months or years? The technique should then be a boon to the almost 90% of peptic ulcer cases whose ulcers are in the duodenum (the next lower unit of the digestive tract): cutting down the flow of corrosive juices at their source in the stomach itself would keep them from eating into any part of the lower intestinal wall...
...single out Mssrs. Schwarz, Parry, and Houston because they redeem themselves with other entries: Schwarz with some of his cartoons, Parry with a parody of Hemingway, Houston with a parody of Salinger. These contributions, some elegant drawings by Sam Little, a game called "The Riots of Spring," and a tract by Dave Hirschfeld are the presentable things in the first issue. To call them more than presentable would be overstating the case...
...Listening. As Europe drifted toward a confrontation with Russia, Karl Marx, the obscure revolutionary, the author of a tract condemning his society to death in a revolt of the working class, never lost hope that free men could yet win the day. "With free institutions, unfettered industry, and emancipated thought, the people of the West will rise again to power and unity of purpose, while the Russian Colossus itself will be shattered by the progress of the masses and the explosive force of ideas...
...What Buttons to Push." Under con tract terms, Buckley will produce one column weekly, entitled "A Conservative Voice," for Sunday publication. The voice of conservatism is delighted at the chance to holler for his cause. "Conservatism," says he, "is very much alive and getting more so all the time. It's a marvelous reaction against the welfare state. Cuba, Belgrade and Russian testing enhanced the trend. So does Kennedy, who doesn't have the remotest idea of what to do, what buttons to push in that wonderful technical apparatus he is heading. And before long that liberal monopoly...