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Flashing through the heavens like an extraterrestrial Tinker Bell, the spacecraft looks like something by H.G. Wells out of Walt Disney. At the helm is none other than the boy from Brooklyn, now fully grown and, among several other things, a real astronomer. With a nonchalant gesture over his magical controls, he guides the ship on a voyage made possible only by the imagination, with the help of a Hollywood special-effects crew. Into the arms of giant galaxies he goes, through halos of stars, past a blinking pulsar, skirting the edge of a black hole, even reconnoitering a distant...
Many national dignitaries attended the celebration; dozens more sent regrets and wished the city a happy 250th. Joining the mayors of New York, San Francisco and a dozen other cities, not to mention literary figures like Walt Whittier in expressing sorrow at not being able to attend, was the poet James Russell Lowell. "Where'er I roam, whatever climes I see, My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee," Lowell worte...
...other interviewer has Terkel's ability to elicit such deep response; and no one can duplicate his fundamental faith in the general-and specific-public. In American Dreams that belief is ratified by a multitude who prefer enlightenment to opulence and stability to success. In So Long!, Walt Whitman boasted, "This is no book,/ Who touches this touches a man." Who touches the book of American Dreams touches not one but a hundred men and women and, by implication, millions more. In an age of faceless polls, sociological tracts and psychobabble, politicians and historians would do well to discard...
POLAROID SAW IT. So did Abbie Hoffman. And Roone Arledge capitalized on it, as did Fabian, John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney and thousands of farmers in the hills of Colombia...
...thought Moscow's Misha was unbearable. Take a gander at Bald Eagle Sam, official mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Bob Hope did, when the creature was unveiled at Los Angeles city hall on the day after his Soviet predecessor went into hibernation. Sam, hatched at nearby Walt Disney studios, struck some observers as a rather poultry imitation of the U.S. national bird. Hope did not duck the issue. "He has a good makeup man," the comedian said, gamely, and confessed his own regret at not participating in the Olympics. Clucked Hope: "Too bad gin rummy and beanbag...