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everyday life situations began to seem very square, indeed. Al
Capp suddenly found that his kind of distortion no longer
worked. He felt that Americans had lost their power to laugh at
themselves. He was wrong. TV simply involved everybody in
everybody more deeply than before. This cool medium, with its
mandate of participation in depth, required Capp to refocus the
Li’l Abner image. His confusion and dismay were a perfect
match for the feelings of those in every major American
enterprise. From Life to General Motors, and from the
classroom to the Executive Suite, a refocusing of aims and
images to permit ever more audience involvement and
participation has been inevitable. Capp said: “But now America
has changed. The humorist feels the change more, perhaps,
than anyone. Now there are things about America we can’t
kid.”