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This is Walt Kelly's weakness as a satirist; he is always shading off into whimsy and gentleness. With humorous exceptions like Mole and Deacon, or Wiley Catt and Sarcophagus MaCabre, the swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing...
Meet the Professor (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.). Emory University History Professor Bell Wiley sketches the common soldier during the Civil...
...Wisconsin, where Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson is challenging Vet eran G.O.P. Senator Alexander Wiley, Republicans hope to fill the gubernatorial void...
...First one distills the lyric rhapsodists, who in this issue number two: Chester Bowles and Senator Alexander Wiley. Bowles' contribution is by far the more interesting, for his faith in the U.N. rests on something at least vaguely tangible, its unexpected "capacity for executive action" and its value as an international forum of ideas. Wiley's hope lies merely in discussing things, "a meeting of world minds," and he evidently does not care who does the discussing. Bowles, in short, says nothing substantial; Wiley says nothing at all; but it is true nonetheless that the rhapsodists...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...