{"id":483,"date":"2011-12-08T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=483"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:34:23","slug":"funny-cold-war-era-novel-set-in-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/12\/08\/funny-cold-war-era-novel-set-in-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Cold War-era novel set in CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/12\/rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-484\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/12\/rally-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/12\/rally-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/12\/rally-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/12\/rally.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>We just picked up this first edition of Max Shulman&#8217;s <em>Rally Round the Flag, Boys!<\/em> (New York: Doubleday, 1957).\u00a0 Shulman (1919-1988) was an American humorist best known for his creation of Dobie Gillis in his 1951 novel, <em>The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,<\/em> which spawned a television series in 1953 called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0045479\/\">The Affairs of Dobie Gillis<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Shulman was described by Al Morgan as &#8220;the master of undergraduate humor, the  outrageous pun, and the verbal caricature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the jacket:\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Rally Round the Flag, Boys<\/em> takes place in a Connecticut commuting village, where discontented country husbands live with their discontented country wives; where old Yankee settlers wish the commuters would vanish in a puff of smoke but mulct them mercilessly until they do; where teen-aged disciples of the late James Dean prove you don&#8217;t have to be underprivileged to be delinquent; where frenzy lies fitfully beneath a rustic patina.\u00a0 Into this seething cauldron a new and highly volatile ingredient is tossed: the U. S. Army installs a Nike guided missile base, with results that are explosively funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just picked up this first edition of Max Shulman&#8217;s Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (New York: Doubleday, 1957).\u00a0 Shulman (1919-1988) was an American humorist best known for his creation of Dobie Gillis in his 1951 novel, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which spawned a television series in 1953 called &#8220;The Affairs of Dobie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}