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...full gravity of the war in the Middle East, with its dangerous possibility of enmeshing the superpowers, became all too apparent. However distant and as yet only indirectly involving the U.S., the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could hold greater peril for Americans 14 than The School for Scandal drama unreeling in Washington. Public reaction to the fighting was more solemn and subdued-and notably less partisan-than during the quick Israeli triumph of 1967, when even the most disinterested observer had to admire that small country's masterful military effort. This time fear and reluctance about...
...appearance of abstract art in Disney's work was fleeting. There was the Toccata and Fugue in Fantasia, with its pastel runs of animated Kandinsky. Now and then the studio would come up with an image that, while not really abstract, seems a distant reference to early European constructivism like the gush of music drawn as prismatic blocks issuing from the mouth of a dancing horn in Make Mine Music (1946). And, more distantly still, some of the Disney fantasies do run parallel to themes of high art, without displaying any awareness of their patrician Doppelgängers...
Speaking to a less than capacity crowd at the Ford Hall Forum series, Sir Bernard said the laws of physics prevent mankind from completely understanding such distant points of time...
...concept" with children in Southern California schools, offering a Me-Book along with half a dozen other children's books. They report that kids who never read before began reading Me-Books compulsively. Sleeping with Me-Books for comfort. Raising hell after leaving a Me-Book at the distant home of a friend. Their list of reader and parent responses concludes: "99% of the parents would like to buy more personalized Me-Books...
...wisdom and knowledge, an awareness of human frailty, a persistent but not shrill hope, if not of heaven, at least of Judgment Day. He was also civilized, witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain "except about his knowledge of metre and his friends...