Word: neck
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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...
...NECK-August Mencken-Hastings House...
...things delight the Brothers Mencken more than a broken neck. Henry L. has been breaking them, as a critic for years. Now his younger bachelor brother, August, a Baltimore civil engineer, has taken time out to collect this anthology of descriptions (from contemporary sources) of 100 more or less sensational hangings...
...foreword, H. L. Mencken (who as a newspaperman has witnessed nine excutions) says that By the Neck was not planned as a "book of horrors," but to show how men behave in the face of "dreadful doom." He believes his brother's book is the first attempt to bring together "a mass of objective data relating to an important phenomenon of civilization...
Thomas Matters of Lowell House and Great Neck, L. I. prepared at Tome School and last week was elected to head the Student Council. He is on the Lowell House Committee and Varsity Tennis Manager...