Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple fact is that human group behavior is complex and variegated. Lay language often does not do justice to this quality. Popular translations of sociological literature can frequently be compared to the difference between Disney's exploding pingpong balls on mousetraps and an original essay in fission by Albert Einstein...
...back in the news. In San Antonio, Texas, it was announced that the late heiress Margaret West had willed Pola, her longtime friend and house guest, jewels, furniture, lifetime use of a San Antonio mansion and an income of $1,250 a month. Then, in Los Angeles, Walt Disney Productions announced that Pola is going to make a movie comeback in a suspense drama called The Moon Spinners, to begin filming this September on the island of Crete...
Summer Magic. Hayley Mills has graduated from Pollyanna to Mother Carey's Chickens in this latest bit of Walt Disney Americana. Dorothy McGuire and Burl Ives also figure in the innocent little plot. Great escapism for jaded pre-teeners...
...Disney's latest for the tired Junior Achievement executive is a version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1911 Mother Carey's Chickens, that durable story of the widow (Dorothy McGuire) and her brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...
...Brother cons the barber into shearing off his Buster Brown bangs; there is a lemonade party and a punch-and-pumpkin Halloween housewarming. Burl Ives pipes The Ugly Bug Ball, and a peaceable bestiary of beavers, owls, foxes, deer, spiders, crickets and caterpillars simultaneously stamps the film with the Disney trademark...