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...Yale" is an Alien-Wonderland book. It lauds laissez-faire economics, deplores laissez-faire education. It preaches religious tolerance but says that there is only one true religion. It weaves its value judgments and quotes-out-of-context into a superficially strong case for the narrowest sort of indoctrination. It is convincing enough so that Yale alumni, reading it, may reject Buckley's logic but still be perturbed a little at his picture of what the old school is teaching. They needn't worry. Bill Buckley went there for four years, and it didn't affect...
...Wind. The bird's finest hour came when French Communist Pierre Gamarra turned it into a charming fable. The wind and a moonbeam visit Pablo Picasso in his home on the Riviera. They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
Sunset & Main. Hollywood still strains the outsider's credulity and the insider's nerves. It still has more feuds than Tennessee, more phonies than Times Square, queerer logic than Wonderland, and stranger mores than almost any place in or out of this world. But, fearful of its reputation-which at times has been several degrees below zero-it knocks itself out trying to convince the world that Sunset Boulevard is just an extension of Main Street. For the past decade, the U.S. has been flooded with pictures of stars scrubbing their floors, baking cakes, sewing clothes and doing...
Disney's $3,900,000 Technicolored version draws on both Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, skips many of Alice's adventures, reshuffles others and caricatures most of its cast of 31 Carroll characters until they look more like Disney creations than the original Sir John Tenniel drawings that inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock...
...Alice in Wonderland (Lou Bunin; Souvaine), produced mainly in France with British actors and U.S. technicians, is the version whose release Walt Disney sued to block on the ground that it would cash in on his publicity (TIME, July 16). It turns its Alice (Carol Marsh) loose in a colorful wonderland of puppets and stylized sets after a live-action prologue purports to show how Mathematician Charles Dodgson cooked up his fantasy...