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Disney didn't give a mouse's tail about all that. As far as he was concerned, the whole vexing issue of content was solved, and though he enjoyed being a hero to the culturally conservative, he was free to focus on what had always mattered most to him, which was not old pieties but new technologies...
Bigger wasn't only better during the 1950s and '60s, bigger was best. The Cadillac Coupe de Ville was as long as a city block, with tail fins extending to the suburbs. Elvis had big hair, the Beatles came along with even bigger hair, and the Jackson Five arrived with stupendously massive hair...
...pretty spot." As in another great American pastime, baseball, there are long intervals of waiting, punctuated by sudden action. The beer louts don't know it, but the sweetest part of hunting is waiting: it produces a transcendent, settling clarity. A hundred yards off through the trees, a white tail flips; the doe hobby-horses off slow motion, away from us. No shot...
...thousands of fearful South Vietnamese begged to be taken out of their country. Beech clawed his way through that crowd and, as Vietnamese clung to his limbs, was finally pulled over the embassy wall by a U.S. Marine. "My last view of Saigon," he wrote, "was through the tail door of the helicopter... Then the door closed--closed on the most humiliating chapter in American history...
Then there are those roommates or entrywaymates who, with a lame excuse and little else, dump their pre-frosh on a kind-hearted friend as they high-tail it out of town for the weekend. In one such case the pre-frosh, after spending several hours reading in an empty common room, was finally taken out by his surrogate host, Avra C. Van Der Zee '02, who had taken pity on him after he left several desperate notes on her door. After spending the night fending off his earnest advances, Van Der Zee came to the conclusion that "pre-frosh...