Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poems began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became...
Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator...
Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney) is the latest Silly Symphony in color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under...
Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...