Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime, violence, or other perversity to receive a favorable review by TIME? Clean, wholesome pictures that emphasize the better values in life are consistently spoofed by your Cinema department. A recent case in point is "Into the Jaws of Heck," your cynical and smart-alecky review of the late Walt Disney's Follow Me, Boys...
...turbulence in China, the changes in the Communist camps and in the Western alliance, the fitful attempts to build the Great Society in the U.S., the continuing adventure in space. As usual, our readers joined in the Man of the Year search; their nominations were led by the late Walt Disney and ranged in altitude from God to the devil. Yet no single earthly figure, so it seemed to the editors, bestrode the year as did the restless, questing young...
...late Walt Disney, who stood for joy, happiness and childlike innocence...
Filed for probate in Los Angeles, the will of Walt Disney settled 45% of his vast estate on a Disney Family Trust for his widow Lillian, their two daughters and seven grandchildren; another 45% went to the philanthropic Disney Foundation, chiefly for the benefit of the California Institute of the Arts, and the remaining 10% established a trust fund for his sister and three nieces. The great fantasist's will mentions no dollar figures, but with all his monumental real-estate holdings and film enterprises, the total is estimated at more than $50 million...
...basic concern of the critics was always that Walt Disney refused to see life in the raw, to accept the end of innocence. He came from the Midwes-born in Chicago, reared there and in Missouri-and stubbornly adhered to the idea that wickedness was no subject for entertainment. In his work, children and animals were naturally good; nature, at least in his animated films, was not so red in tooth and claw as it was cuddly...