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Pining for a sight of the Shorthorn cattle on his Texas ranch, bald Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, sighed: "I want to go home so bad I can taste it." His only worry was whether he could round up a quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...
...magic cap. commands the broom to fetch water, forgets how to stop it, nearly drowns in the deluge that follows. To Igor Stravinsky's rip-roaring Rite of Spring, a primeval world, complete with dinosaurs, bubbles up, parades by, dies down. To Mussorgsky's spooky Night on Bald Mountain, hobgoblins and beldams ride their brooms. To Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, centaurs and centaurettes, Pegasus, Mrs. Pegasus and a nestful of little Pegasi gambol and fly; Bacchus and his crew get a good drenching when the storm comes up. The whole cinesymphony concert lasts two hours...
...Bach to the violet-bordered stream of Schubert's Ave Maria, Fantasia is a long succession of very large orders. Some of these orders (the flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue...
...Mussorgsky's halloweenish Night on Bald Mountain, Disney went outside his own studio for talent, got famed Fairy-Tale Illustrator Kay Nielson (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) to design graveyards and ghosts, ended with a Walpurgis nightmare calculated to turn little children's hair white. But Illustrator Nielsen's jagged scenes, plus a new high in animation technique, made it by far Fantasia's best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese...
...Yorkshireman received a letter from his son in a German prison camp, who reported that among his fellow prisoners was bald, twinkly Novelist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, last heard from in July when the Germans captured him and his Le Touquet villa...