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Then came Hitler. By 1945, when this Walt Disney picture begins, Allied bombs are bursting in the courtyard of the academy and Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn...
...writers rather than travestied by our poor selves." This Platonic ontology can be argued, but Plato himself was in no doubt that this theory was the enemy of art. Reality may be like the figures in Plato's famous cave, where only the shadows may be seen by mortal eye. But, it is just those shadows that are the substance of art, and the business of malting a play of their flickering forms is still quite a trick...
...mortal dangers we French have survived since the beginning of the century, the U.S. has not given us the impression that it regards its own destiny as linked with that of France, that it wishes France to be great and strong, that it is doing all it can to help her to remain or become so once again. (1945) The Alliance has been built on the basis of integration, in which the defense of each of the countries of conti nental Europe, apart from England, has no national character, in which in fact all is commanded by the Americans...
Caldwell's mortal wound comes from the indifference of students at Olinger (read Olympus) High, and the casual thunderings of its Principal Zimmerman (read Zeus). He is, moreover, tormented by the teasing lechery of Vera (Venus), the gym teacher, and the unreliability of his old Buick, which must be fixed by Vera's husband Hummel (Hephaestus), a cuckolded garage keeper...
...gold mine of their ideas is David Mallery's Teaching About Communism (National Association of Independent Schools; 75?). The worst are offering separate hate-Communism courses that indoctrinate more than they illuminate. Louisiana, for example, teaches high school students the superheated proposition that all Russians "are our mortal enemies . . . They are working day and night to destroy America...