Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 in Disney's life. Disney was brought up on a farm, beaten by his father...
...amusement park. In conceiving of Disneyland. Disney again played a merely conceptual role in terms of actual design, although he personally designed Tom Sawyer's Island. This, taken with Main Street USA, indicates that Disney was primarily interested in pristine nostalgia for a lost boyhood mythology of the nineteenth century Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father suffered financial reverses and the Disney family had to seek its fortune in the city, and in the twentieth century. One can see the influence of Disney's lost boyhood in the myths recreated for children, and the harsh...
...Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most valuable interests to protect. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most sins to confess. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we would have to take drastic initiative to break loose, even to preserve an academic integrity in an institution whose social attitudes often grow from nineteenth century intellectual seeds...
...would be a mistake to think that ideas are loss dangerous than actions. History shows otherwise, "Scientific" racists like Gobineau in the mid-nineteenth century and the anti-Semites of post-World War I Europe helped create atmospheres in which genocide was an intellectual possibility. More recently, some Cold War historians, describing a "monolithic Communist bloc," have given an academic cushion for an American government that indiscriminately opposes Communism...
Alexander Woodside, assistant professor of History, has pointed out in his book Vietnam and the Chinese Model that the nineteenth century Vietnamese bureaucratic code employed repetitiveness to ingrain "a specific written system of political signals" into the mind of the Vietnamese student. Woodside adds, "These written codes were narrow and restricted, in the interests of encouraging predictable behavior. Individual discretion and originality were reduced in the process...