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...clear plastic sheets on which final animation drawings are made) from a new Disney cartoon, Robin Hood. This migration of Disney's iconography from masscult to the commercial fringes of "high" art (it happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with the full cooperation of the Disney Archives and published, at $45, by Harry N. Abrams. The text has one defect: it is much too unctuous. Nevertheless the book reveals more clearly than anything written before...
...says Alston of Phase III, "we have the Mod Squad, the kids we are trying to integrate with the veterans while getting them to settle down and learn the game." Those lessons are to be found in "the book"-The Complete Baseball Handbook, an exhaustive 567-page tome co-authored by Alston and Recreation Author Donald Weiskopf that details everything from the construction of diamonds to the art of stealing catchers' signals...
...that flow from various departments, Social Trends is an invaluable anatomy of British life. It is assembled by a team of only five statisticians, who cut freely across bureaucratic channels searching for equations to illuminate national habits on money, health, leisure, children, schools and sex. This month's tome is the third annual edition and, according to Lord Lionel Robbins, chairman of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics, it is "the best report on the evolution of our society that has ever been established...
...School of Medicine branded the book "an obscene denigration of women" that "demeans the whole profession of medicine." Many of her colleagues and even some students apparently agreed. When Dr. Ramey proposed a boycott of the book's publisher, Williams & Wilkins decided to revise the titillating tome before a second press run is begun...
Moist Gaze. Meantime we have Days. It is a characteristically hefty tome chronicling virtually every day in the life of an admirable West Country schoolmaster-a sort of block off the old Chips. Never mind the subversive rot that Waugh, Orwell and Cyril Connolly wrote about the English public school. Delderfield's Bamfylde is a cozy, character-building place. Pranks are played, faculty rivalries worked out, young minds awakened, while over it all Delderfield nods with the benign and sometimes moist gaze of an Old Boy. There seems to be a streak of self-identification in the author...