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“Humpty Dumpty” (October 18, 1983) By Phillip Bissell

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Title:	“Humpty Dumpty” (October 18, 1983) By Phillip Bissell
Artist:	Phillip Bissell (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	351
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Added to Site:	11/1/2019
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“Humpty Dumpty” (October 18, 1983)
By Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 -)
16.5 x 12, ink and wash on board

In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change his life—and the lives of fans of the brand-new AFL football team coming to Boston. “Sports editor Jerry Nason came to me and he said, ‘They’ve decided to call the team the Boston Patriots. You better have a cartoon ready for tomorrow’s edition.’” Bissel’s “Pat Patriot” cartoon was the Patriot’s logo from 1961-1992.

The “false intellect” criticism of Reagan was most persistent. A word-slinging orator, his past as an actor always colored the view of his pronouncements as scripts.

Humpty Dumpty (from Alice Through the Looking Glass) is a classic false intellect. Just before his renowned accident, Humpty Dumpty tells Alice that words can mean exactly what he wants them to mean, and if you ask them to do more work than normal, you just pay them a little more.

By 1983, the economy was bouncing back in big ways. Internationally, the Cold War was at its highest tensions since the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 15, Reagan addressed the Nation on “The Quality of Life in America.”
“I know I court trouble when I dispute experts who specialize in spotting storm clouds and preaching doom and gloom. But at the risk of being the skunk that invades their garden party, I must warn them: Some very good news is sneaking up on you. The quality of American life is improving again. `Quality of life' -- that's a term often used but seldom defined. Certainly our standard of living is part of it, and one good measure of that is purchasing power.”

“In 1980 the U.S. ranked only 10th among 20 industrial nations in per capita income. By the end of 1982, we'd climbed all the way up to third place. Our stronger dollar has increased purchasing power. Real wages are up. And inflation is down to 2.6 percent.”

“Our critics may never be satisfied with anything we do, but I can only say those who created the worst economic mess in postwar history should be the last people crying wolf 1,000 days into this administration, when so many trends that were headed the wrong way are headed back in the right direction.”

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