Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winnie the Pooh and The Honey Tree turns the Disney animaters loose on a tribute to A. A. Milne's classic storybook characters. The drawings are a rough but not treasonable facsimile of the famous Shepard illustrations, pleasantly introducing Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit. It is the voices that sound dead wrong. Speaking for Pooh, Comedian Sterling Holloway makes Christopher Robin's friend seem a dry American, as if the world of Milne had collided in Disneyland with the world of Twain. And Pooh purists will certainly wince at a new batch of song lyrics, starting with...
...free men of any generation your cover story on Spain [Jan. 21], was an affront not worthy of TIME'S reasonably impartial standards. The tortured many who fought fascism in 1937 would turn in their unmarked graves to see Franco against a background of a green tree...
...Thanks to Louis Glanzman for TIME's cover symbolizing the renaissance of Spain: new leaves on the old olive tree...
...Massengale, 28, does not pretend to be a big hitter. Besides, as he said, "I am always conscious of the ocean here." So conscious, in fact, that he sliced his second shot clear over to the opposite side of the 18th fairway, wound up stymied behind a tree. Whereupon Massengale pulled a No. 8 iron from his bag, said a silent prayer and swung. The ball sailed straight through a hole in the branches and landed on the green only 4 ft. from the pin. The easy birdie putt gave him a one-stroke victory worth...
Sometimes he certainly acted crazy. Like the day he stood talking earnestly to an oak tree, which he mistook for the King of Prussia. Or during the last years before his death in 1820, when he was shut up in Windsor Castle telling stories, laughing and crying, with a kingdom full of imaginary friends. Besides, he had acted pretty irrationally toward his American colonies. So, on evidence, historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians...