Word: docs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went on to study under Dewey at Columbia in 1915-17. Dr. Hu's four-volume student diary is still a Chinese bestseller...
Walt Disney on esthetics: "Art? ... I looked up the definition once, but I've forgotten what it is ... you got to watch out for the boys with the dramatic sense and no sense of humor or they'll go arty on you. . . . Hell, Doc ... we just make a picture and then you professors come along and tell us what...
Professor Robert D. Feild has done exactly that in a book called The Art of Walt Disney (Macmillan; $3.50), but he insists: "Hell, Doc [Walt himself holds several honorary degrees], this is art." Three years ago Professor Feild stuck his neck out for modern art, Disney's in particular, and his appointment to Harvard University's fine-arts department was "not renewed." Now he is at Tulane University. Professor Feild contends that comic strips and cavemen's scrawls were forerunners of the animated movie that Walt Disney has made into "the great art form that...
...hold of Beekman again, published his affidavit declaring the FBI had third-degreed him into admitting that he had mistaken Senator Walsh for another man, called ''Doc." from Connecticut...
...able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery is, in the full sense of the word, negligible...