Word: walt
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...policy, Disney doesn’t give credit to studio executives on the movie. There are so many people working for Disney who are instrumental in making a great film that it’s impossible to list everyone. The “Walt Disney Pictures” or “Touchstone Pictures” logo at the start of the movie represents...
...Congress of International PEN, an association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists, which opens in New York City next week. The London-based association, which has 83 affiliate centers worldwide, is dedicated to fighting censorship and the jailing of writers. Founded in 1921, it takes its inspiration from Walt Whitman, who wrote in 1881: "My dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets...
...Franois Millet. Homer's own America had its anxieties too--immense ones. Nothing in its cultural history is more striking than the virtual absence of any mention of the central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I went to Austin to meet with the President and Walt Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. Our purpose was to review with the President the defense budget for the fiscal year 1968, which was to be presented to the Congress in February 1967. Among the items to be considered was the recommendation of the Chiefs that the budget request include funds for production of an antiballistic-missile system. I explained to the President that the Chiefs had recommended the action, but that...
...President called on each of the five Chiefs in turn, and each one of them urged approval of the ABM program. Walt Rostow sided with the Chiefs. This was an extraordinarily difficult moment for President Johnson. I never hesitated to disagree with a unanimous recommendation of the Joint Chiefs if I felt it was the wrong decision. In this case, however, Congress had already passed a law authorizing production of the ABM system. To continue to refuse to proceed in the direction that had been supported by the Congress, and to do so in the face of a unanimous recommendation...