Word: walting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named Pyle who was bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy--by strategically wiping them out--and took as his bible the cold-warring treatises of an Ivy League academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early for Sam Huntington.) Next to Pyle, the weary aloofness of the British journalist, Fowler, seemed almost noble. And next to what we know came of all that idealistic American sabre-rattling, Fowler's final decision to help the Viet Minh murder Pyle appears nothing...
...some Walt Disney movie about an astronaut and a monkey going up together in a space capsule; after the movie, some guy came out and played too-happy music on a huge organ. Then my grandmother grabbed me and rushed me down to the second row so we could get good seats for the stage show. That was my first stage show, one of the famous Great Easter Shows, and it was just amazing. The way the Rockettes did that kickline and all those people flying around the stage in glittery costumes--even the orchestra was incredible. I never knew...
Perhaps Harvard should take a tip from Walt Disney and divide our requirements into Tomorrowland, Adventureland, Frontierland...
...pool was full of happy swimmers. But not so happy was Lifeguard Steve Tourville. Watching over his charges, he sat in his chair wearing a suit of thermal underwear and three sweaters. Is this a Colorado ski resort scene? No, just an unusual 36° day at Walt Disney World in Florida. Across a broad sweep of the country last week, winter howled in with bone-numbing force. In the nation's capital, temperatures dropped 20°, to near zero, during a one-hour period...
...Catering to more sophisticated filmgoers, Hollywood each year produced fewer and fewer movies that suited the Music Hall's strict policy of offering only films and stage shows that were suitable for family viewing. It was no great surprise that the featured film last week was a treacly Walt Disney production called Pete's Dragon...