Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISNEY VERSION by Richard Schickel. 384 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Walt Disney died on Dec. 15, 1966, at the age of 65; yet it is difficult to think of him as being dead. Much of this has to do with the ubiquitous enterprises that, under Brother Roy Disney, continue to spread the name.* On a more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention...
This fluent analysis of Disney's life, times, art and commerce by Cinema Critic Richard Schickel ruffles the image without disrupting the performance. Parents out of sympathy with Disney's too sweet view of life will continue to take their children to his movies anyway, if only to recapture a sense of innocence in their own responses. Nostalgia is a bug not easily shooed...
...spring and the sap is runnin' high at Disney's. They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper-and mebbe ought...
DAVID BROWER is a conservationist. Think about Walt Disney, birdwatching, and Peter Rabbit, and all the things that the word probably suggests, and then forget them; because when Brower starts talking about what we're doing to nature, he sometimes gets angry, the things he says aren't usually very pretty, and he has few kind words for Smokey the Bear...