Word: ostriches
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...believe it will "promote the happiness and well-beings" of the American people if we blindly run the risk of disaster. With the example of the European democracies before us, will our educated youth continue to keep their heads in the sand? Even the ostrich doesn't do that...
...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 and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract...
...Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant...
...Many such changes make sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics are so ostrich-blind as to insist that they now have standardization-thus postponing real standardization...
President Lazaro Cardenas and his Government last week played ostrich, denied there was any Nazi or Communist influence at work in Mexico...