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...replica of the mighty Matterhorn. The ride was recently closed following a wave of decapitations of sled occupants in the midst of their escapism. The sophisticated technology of Disneyland's attractions, combined with the all-encompassing concept of the park, covering all the realms of experience, adventure, fantasy, Tomorrow, Mainstreet USA (with more coming) has given birth to nothing less than our first global village. In this village, you can go around the world, into the future or past, and enter a variety of mildly hysteric psychological states. In short, all parts of this world are instantly in touch with...
...with the impersonal team of cartoonists, accountants, technicians, electricians who not only gave his vision concrete expression, but made the public want to participate in it. In fact Disney himself inhabited his fantasy world to an extreme degree, maintaining an apartment in one of the scale model buildings on Mainstreet USA. Disney was an impersonal artist, if you will, for Disneyland is a matrix of imaginative achievement as well as American business and technology...
...across, "I don't want the public to see the real world they live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel they're in another world." But this other world is always informed by Disney's background, brought to life in the view of Mainstreet USA as you enter the park. Here the basic unit of small town nineteenth-century America seems to epitomize for Disney all that is happy. Interestingly, these are false buildings with real stores. This idealized version of Disney's hometown. Marceline, Kansas, was wrenched out of years of struggle...
...stops. And Disneyland also gives expression to Mircea Eliade's concept of illo tempore, a timeless realm in which the primary acts of reality are acted out continuously. And finally, the five dollar ticket entitles the decent citizen to enter the realms of American Jungian archetypes--the Mark Twain, Mainstreet USA, Tomorrowland, Pluto, Goofy, Abraham Lincoln--all implanted in the unconscious of all the wonderful public willing to pay to see that archetype over there...
...tripled the number of yacht berths. To keep some of the penny-ante trippers away, he has refused to renew the lease on his docks for one of the excursion steamers out of Hyannis and demanded that the other carry fewer passengers at higher rates. To upgrade the mainstreet shopping area, he has bought up 80% of the commercial acreage in town, elbowed out marginal enterprises and replaced them with tony shops selling needlepoint and native-woven material...