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Such lapses of judgment only serve to point up the huge generation gap between children's film makers and their audience. Somehow-with the frequent but by no means infallible exception of Walt Disney-Hollywood has never learned what so many children's book-writers have known all along: size and a big budget are no substitutes for originality or charm. The greatest works remain those that keep their audience in mind by thinking small...
...that has been written about William James, psychologist, philosopher, teacher and author, nothing as good as this full-length biography has appeared before. Author Allen, an English professor at New York University and a skilled biographer of Walt Whitman, presents James's complex character with the ease and clarity that distinguished his subject's own style. There is no understanding James's skeptical temperament without understanding his extraordinary family. Using unpublished papers, Allen weaves a rich account of the restless, tightly knit clan. As for William, his character is best expressed in his own words: "My first...
...WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This Christmas package, "From All of Us to All of You," includes clips from such Disney favorites as Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Ba/uhi, Snow White and ihe Seven Dwarfs, The Lady and the Tramp and Cinderella...
Quiet Confidence. The choice between the generals was not an easy one. Each had a clique of supporters actively rooting for him. Noting that Chapman was senior in time-in-rank to Walt and Krulak, Johnson remarked: "One man said you could flip a coin and any one of three or four would be ideally equipped...
This reasoning proved fallacious for Playwright Kyle Crichton, who had a 1956 Broadway flop with The Happiest Millionaire, which was based on the Philadelphia childhood reminiscences of Cordelia Drexel Biddle. The formula fails again in Walt Disney's movie musical. The main trouble this time is that Fred MacMurray's impersonation of Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle is eccentric but not lovable. He is, in fact, a boor...