Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Containing everything from the Pierian well water of Johann Sebastian Bach to the violet-bordered stream of Schubert's Ave Maria, Fantasia is a long succession of very large orders. Some of these orders (the flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
...spite of its mushroom growth since 1934, Transradio operates on a shoestring compared with worldwide press associations like A. P. or U. P. In Europe, where most of its news originates at present, Transradio has only three or four full-time reporters. In London last September, Transradio had two men, and both departed after war broke out. For several months Transradio's London office had no tenant, no name on its door. Then Alexander Paton, correspondent for some Scottish newspapers, took over. Scotsman Paton's cable stories are brief, innocuous, readily passed by British censors...