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...late Walt Disney, who stood for joy, happiness and childlike innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Consolation Oscar. For a little bit of luck, up popped Walt Disney, who wanted Julie to play Mary Poppins and Walton to do the set and costume-design. Julie was dubious. Recalls Julie's pal Carol Burnett: "She asked me, 'Do you think I ought to? Go to work for Walt Disney? The cartoon person?' " Carol assured her that Disney did indeed do other things besides cartoons. Later, Julie got a telephone call from Poppins' author, Pamela Travers. "P. Travers here," said P. Travers briskly. "Speak to me. Can you be tough? Can you be tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...mythmaker is a primitive. He molds his fantasies out of primordial impulses that are common to all men. In an age of reality, he is a rarity, for he celebrates an innocence that does not mix well with the times. Walt Disney was such a man, molding myths and spinning fantasies in which innocence always reigned. Literally billions of people responded out of some deeply atavistic well of recognition, and they lavished their gratitude on him. Soldiers carried the cartoon-figure emblems of his creations on their uniforms and their war planes. Kings and dictators saw them as symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALT DISNEY: Images of Innocence | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALT DISNEY: Images of Innocence | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Follow Me, Boys! Walt Disney, who sometimes likes to represent America as a giant niceberg floating in an ocean of nostalgia, has now represented the model American male as a simpering scoutmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Into the Jaws of Heck | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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