Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walt Disney has turned teacher. FORTUNE last week reported that educational and propaganda films for the Government now constitute more than three-fourths of the Disney output. Carried away by what it had seen of Walt's new films, FORTUNE exclaimed...
Says FORTUNE: "In one respect Walt Disney is a man of almost godlike power, for there is literally no limit to the things he can create on the screen. He can set forth anything from a world in evolution to the whirling of electrons invisible to the human eye. He can produce a mosquito big enough to tower over a village. . . . He can get inside a complex machine, slow down its action, explain its operation to apprentices with a clarity impossible in any other medium...
...Walt Wiesmiller, a fast man on the bases and clean-up hitter for Dr. Walter Carliss' Pennsylvania nine, completes the outfield with Governali and Bufalino. The team would have a combined batting average of .320, while Harrison compiled an earned run average of 1.68 and Talcott won nine of ten starts...
...WALT WHITMAN. POET OF DEMOCRACY-Hugh l'Anson Faussef-Yale...
This compact, brilliant critical biography is 1) an excellent life of Walt Whitman, 2) a just, if merciless, evaluation of him as poet, mystic and prophet of democracy, 3) an arduous, provocative sermon on the nature and responsibility of democracy and of art. Unlike most Whitman critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved...