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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...
...taken one man to make that picture [Snow White]? I figured it out-just 250 years.'' But controlling the wheels-within-wheels is of paramount importance, and here Disney is the authentic master craftsman, indispensable and, so far, without a peer. "Without his stabilizing influence," writes Professor Feild. "the art form for which he is responsible would have long since disintegrated...
...bookepper any way Cant read. Can write his Name but I al ready put that down My self Says he can Plough but dont look like it to Me. sent to Feild...
...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
...Administration, however, did not answer the petitions. Even a Student Council resolution urging Feild's reappointment brought no word from the President's offices in University Hall. Today Harvard undergraduates are as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against horse-meat in Commons