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Islands of the Sea (Buena Vista), the most recent of Walt Disney's ain't-nature-grand operas, is a scrappy but fascinating "featurette" (28 minutes) that observes in full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: ... And Selected Shorts | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

The Loeb Committee can help to reverse the trend. It can encourage students to try smaller and simpler productions; it can fit more productions onto the Loeb's main stage; and it can try to turn the Loeb over to the undergraduates. Hopefully, the white elephant can be taught some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Low-ebb | 3/28/1961 | See Source »

Old Lan Xang. A branch of the Thai peoples, the Lao were driven out of southern China by Kublai Khan in the 13th century and fled south to the valleys of the Mekong behind a legendary king, Khun Borom, who rode "a white elephant with beautiful black lips and eyelids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The White Elephant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

(The old King's offspring today hold posts ranging from doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The White Elephant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

The Look of a Leg. In time, the collection ranges from a 14th century silver point* miniature drawing of an elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterful Drawings | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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