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...scurrilous and personal appraisements of, and assaults on, officials. A conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster...
...clever article entitled "Profound Mouse" on the art page of your May 15 number of TIME, your art critic describes Mickey Mouse as a "big-eyed, wisp-snouted rodent" and then goes on to declare "last week Mickey Mouse became Art"-in Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries...
...reference to your interesting article on Mickey Mouse (TIME, May 15), I wish to tell you that Disney's brain-child is known as Mitchell Rodent on Beacon Hill, Boston...
Every four weeks the big-eyed, wisp-snouted rodent that is the world's most celebrated film actor re-emerges on the screens of the world with shrill eagerness and a new set of adventures. He pokes into the unknown, pants, heaves and swells his chest at Minnie Mouse, meets grievous setbacks, shrilly gives fight and taps out marvels of dancing, bullfighting, footballing.* Like his predecessor in world popularity, Charlie Chaplin, he has "the wistfulness of ... a little fellow trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki...
House Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...