Word: ostrichized
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...flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract...
...Many such changes make sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics are so ostrich-blind as to insist that they now have standardization-thus postponing real standardization...
President Lazaro Cardenas and his Government last week played ostrich, denied there was any Nazi or Communist influence at work in Mexico...
...speaker was Senator Robert A. Taft. It was his first major declaration on the subject of foreign policy. Apparently expressing his sincere convictions, and obviously more intelligently reasoned than the ostrich isolationism of Tom Dewey, the speech indicates that next fall's campaign may not be meaningless and evasive on the issues of foreign policy...
...Sherwood said: "There's a frightful conspiracy of silence that is turning Washington into an orgy of unreality. . . . It is a 'peace hysteria' clouding all attempts at intelligent thought about the war. Congress is one mass of Chamberlains. The United States is in exactly the same ostrich-escapism as England up to the insanity of Munich...