Word: humanize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...lifelong student of the American comic strip, Schulz knew the universal power of varying a few basic themes. He said things clearly. He distilled human emotion to its essence. In a few tiny lines - a circle, a dash, a loop, and two black spots - he could tell anyone in the world what a character was feeling. He was a master at portraying emotion, and took a simple approach to character development, assigning to each figure in the strip one or two memorable traits and problems, often highly comic, which he reprised whenever the character reappeared...
...generation of solemn, precociously cynical college students, who "inhabited a shadow area within the culture," the writer Frank Conroy recalled. They were the last generation to grow up, as Schulz had, without television, and they read Charlie Brown's utterances as existential statements - comic strip koans about the human condition...
...very American sense that things could be changed, or at least modified, by sudden violence. By getting good and mad you could resolve things. But, at the same time, Charlie Brown reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be human...
...fall, Clinton hadn't wanted to risk losing the prescription-drug issue to Republicans by blocking the bipartisan plan. But the election is over - by week's end Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson will be George W. Bush's new secretary of health and human services, and Clinton just left him a message: bipartisan doesn't always mean better...
...still wondering, air pollution kills. A study shows that in large cities, every 1% increase in the concentration of a type of pollution known as fine particulate matter results, on average, in one more death a day. The fine particles, each less than one-fifth the width of a human hair, come from gasoline engines and power plants. Researchers urge the government to crack down and call on the rest of us to do our part. For starters: take mass transit, not your...