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Sickles had a personality obstacle to overcome. Despite his youth and appearance, he was really a wishy-washy pearance, Tydings had reportedly hedged on backing him because of this. His campaign tried to portray him as active and enthusiastic. It helped, but it could have helped more in Prince Georges...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Maryland Dems Pick Backlash Candidate | 10/5/1966 | See Source »

A Charlie Brown Christmas stars all the familiar Charles Schulz cartoon characters, faithfully animated by ex-Disney Artist Bill Melendez. The par able, too, is pure Schulz. Christmas is coming, but "good oF wishy-washy" Charlie Brown doesn't "feel the way I'm supposed to feel." "Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Security Is a Good Show | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

One could reply again, expressing incredulity that an existentialist can in the name of an idealist for Communism as it presently exists, but perhaps it is better to leave Sartre and Walter with the last word. If you have ninety-five cents, Walter, start with the Odajnyk paperback and work...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Jean-Paul Sartre and the New Radicals | 6/2/1965 | See Source »

Another expression of man's sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today" to "the crabby old woman of tomorrow"; "good ol' wishy-washy" Charlie Brown will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Good Grief, Charlie Schulz! | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

It was she that he painted oftenest (see following pages). Her presence borrowed color from the walls of her bath. While fauvism, cubism, even dadaism and surrealism bypassed Bonnard, he kept his eye on nature and his wife's place in it. To many, through the 1930s and 1940s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Distant Witness | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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