Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, about the only concrete fact that Bolles has to toy with is that out of last year's once beaten eight, Captain Fluff Stevens, Walt Kernan, Johnny Richards, and coxswain George Shortlege are missing. Returning lettermen include this year's captain, Shuff Gray, now engaged in hockey activities, Bruce Pirnie, Sam Goddard, Dick Fowler, and stroke Jack Wilson. In addition to these veterans there is a complete Jayvee boatload returning from last year. Also the 1943 shell, which left ten lengths of open water between it and the Elis returns almost intact...
Most Americans, facing the inexpressible, get around it by talking big or talking tough. Fearing, in his Collected Poems, does both at once. He models his big talk on the Bible, Walt Whitman, and the ballyhoo of American publicity-salesmanship, his tough talk on the argot current in New York City's tabloids, dives, streets. A responsible stylist, Fearing frequently succeeds in welding big talk and tough into the kind of indivisible unit that makes literary news. His Dirge for the "executive type" is deservedly an anthological stock-piece...
...Rome, a nephew of the late Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote Pinocchio, asked the Ministry for Popular Culture to sue Walt Disney for libel. Charge: Disney's film so distorted the character of Pinocchio that "he easily could be mistaken for American...
About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...more successful with mice, ducks, dwarfs and hobgoblins than with human characters. But they had to admit that in his first 17 years Disney had never stood still or done the same thing twice. Today, with world-famed composers and artists clamoring to work at its Burbank studio, Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. is revolutionizing art faster than all the longhairs of Greenwich Village...