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In case your memory doesn't extend back to sixth grade, Charlie Brown consists of a series of vignettes, tied together neatly by the notion of the cast's descent into the abyss of comical self-doubt and (yuk, yuk) mutual recrimination. The six cast members handle the material superbly...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Sixth Grade Revisited | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

Jackson shrugs off their ire. "They are wishy-washy," he scoffs. "They can't stampede me. My domestic voting record is almost perfect. That's what bugs them." Jackson last week took to bugging them in another way: he now boasts to audiences that he is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Where Are the Liberals? | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Humphrey still carries some familiar scars. Of the people who say he is unacceptable as a candidate, 20% consider him too wishy-washy, 28% do not like his views, 7% think he talks too much and another 7% think he is too old. His running sore over Viet Nam seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME SOUNDINGS: Three Candidates Look Strong--Now | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

PEANUTS JUBILEE by Charles M. Schulz. 222 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $29.95. Good grief, good old Charlie Brown is 25 years old! The birthday reminder may be a little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gift Books | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). Don Knotts is a wishy-washy bookkeeper who becomes a fish. This sounds dumb, but it isn't half bad. The animated scenes of Knotts as the fish are better than Disney, and the plot (the Navy tries to use him to bomb enemy subs...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

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