Charles Monroe Schulz ... a Friend of Libraries.Friends of Libraries manifest themselves in many ways, none more distinctively than Charles Monroe Schulz, creator of the Peanuts pea·nut n. 1. A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground. 2. phenomenon, and who died at the age of 77 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on 12 February 2000. Described in the 1960s by Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. as a `modern poet' Schulz retired last year after drawing 18,000 Peanuts strips. These were published in 2500 newspapers with an estimated readership of 355 million. All of these readers were exposed from time to time to Schulz's incisive incisive /in·ci·sive/ (-si´siv) 1. having the power or quality of cutting. 2. pertaining to the incisor teeth. in·ci·sive adj. 1. Having the power to cut. reflections on the value, promise, idiosyncrasies and image of public libraries drawn, clearly, from his own experience of them. These pages contain but a few of them, in tribute and gratitude to an outstanding cartoonist ... and Friend of Libraries. |
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