Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Dike is not even tempted to bite the hand that feeds him. He thinks Disney's Night on Bald Mountain "the most mature statement" ever made in animated cartoons, believes that Disney's mouse-opera presents a great future for artists-perhaps the missing link between the artist and the public. Says he: "You feel as though you were part of something pretty big and important when you work on a Disney film. One of the greatest things Disney offers an artist is the discipline of having to sell his stuff by making definite and specific statements...
Today, as No. 1 U. S. Buyer, he still wastes too much time being nice to all comers. A weekend high-gos golfer, he holds a long-distance (not accuracy) driving record at Chicago's Bob O'Link Golf Club; he is said to have the longest, most exasperating hook outside a Wodehouse story. He smokes cigars, cigarets, and his huge fumigatory pipe, drinks Scotch highballs, dieted 20 Ib. off before going to Washington, has eaten them back on with interest. He hates exercise, said recently: "The only exercise I take now is walking in the funeral processions...
...Congress during the third Administration. He had Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters: "The United States needs the St. Lawrence Seaway for defense . . . tremendously needs the power project which will form a link in the Seaway . . . to produce aluminum and more aluminum for the airplane program which will assure command...
...Skoplje newsorgan Glas Juge (Voice of the South) addressed a stern warning to Bulgaria, whose Parliament began talking of revisionist claims against Yugoslavia. ''The question of Macedonia was settled on the battlefields. Nevermore will the Valley of Vardar be detached from Yugoslavia." That strategic valley is a link in the most convenient route from central Europe to strategic Salonika...
...guts of the show were 30 hulking specimens of Milles sculpture. In the museum's court stood a plaster replica of The Meeting of the Waters. Outside the entrance pranced the equally famous bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...