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...time was the 1930s and early 1940s. The place was the Walt Disney Studio. Members of the young team that drew Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy and the rest of its barnyard denizens were early students of what is now referred to as body language. They understood that, on the screen, action is character, that in the exaggerated twitch of one of their little anthropomorph's bottoms, the stretch of his back or the lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse...
...outside his own turf, James Alfred Wight passes unnoticed among the readers who have made him famous. Only under his pseudonym is he recognized as the Marcus Welby of the barnyard and the author of four bestsellers about an amiable animal doctor named James Herriot. The fourth, The Lord God Made Them All, revisits the peaceable kingdom of rural England, celebrates simple pleasures and, as before, pours time back and forth like sand in a kitchen hourglass...
...Fred Stanley has little to complain about. There is plenty of talent around to complement his own. In this barnyard the Chicken must surely have confidence that he will emerge by October as the champion among champions that he is. Sock it to 'em Fred (Stanley...
...CHINA, they say, scientists are learning to predict earthquakes by studying barnyard animals. When the pigs snort and hens cackle nervously, researchers know the tectonic plates will soon commence to bump and grind, and the earth to heave...
Like the inmates of Orwell's barnyard, citizens of the Soviet Union enjoy vastly different degrees of power, privilege and material comfort, despite the country's egalitarian ideals. Soviet Communism has theoretically abolished hereditary classes, but it has neither uprooted the ladder of success nor stifled the urge to scale it. While there are obstacles to social mobility in the Soviet Union, those who make it to the top rely on the same factors that lead to success in the West: education, hard work, talent, connections-even corruption...