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...founded Disneyland. Since that time, his animated figures have been gaining increasing reality through technological improvements, and Disneyland itself has become too real to be an 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...
Bonfire and Buddha. The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away...
...precise performance in "The Myth" and "Pain." Joan Lombardi, a firm, blue-skirted figure, added noteworthy strength and form to the selections. Yet even after all the refined play and posing, the bells chime and "Footnotes" blurs into gossip behind a water-colored fence. It's a Tom Sawyer delight...
...Author C. Northcote Parkinson [June 14] should be flogged around the fleet for suggesting that Hornblower was responsible for the timely death of H.M.S. Renown's dread Captain Sawyer. Any Hornblower student worth his salt pork knows that the most likely author of Sawyer's assist down the hatchway was Henry Wellard. Wellard is known to have suffered repeatedly under Sawyer's sadistic paranoia, and was described as "highly agitated" on the night of the incident. The testimony of the Marine corporal, Greenwood, places Wellard with Hornblower near the hatchway, and both Marine Captain Whiting and Lieut...
...about the proliferation of paper-shufflers, in fact, was born when he discovered that while the number of British Navy vessels dwindled from 62 to 20 between 1914 and 1928, the number of shore-bound Admiralty officials nearly doubled during the same period. *Naval scholars may remember that Sawyer, a sadist who mistreated his crew, mysteriously fell into a hatch, doing himself permanent injury, and soon thereafter was killed by a mob of Spanish prisoners who temporarily took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later cut his throat during the melee...