When I was a boy, while MASH was still new, I thought Major Winchester hilarious. Now, as I approach forty--somewhat older than Charles probably was at the time (he once said Harvard, Class of '43, which would have made him about 32)--he strikes me as not only snobbish, but remarkably immature. Someone with so much education and erudition, surely, ought to be astute enough to assess the situation he was in and adapt to it better. Not only that, but Charles behaved in an outright childish manner at times: e.g., suggesting that one of the schoolchildren from Hawkeye's town cut up one of his father's suits. Still, his expressions and banter were very amusing.
