Volume 21, Number 8 · May 16, 1974
In the Mouse Trap
By Robert Craft
The Art of Walt Disney
by Christopher Finch
Abrams, 458, 763 illus., 351 plates pp., $45.00
'Visitors from the real world,' the Disney World receptionists say, and 'real world' is a term of reference in Christopher Finch's seven-pound book. But since Walt Disney World is a part of Florida, reality is hardly the issue. The Disney complex is simply another, albeit the ne plus ultra, Sunshine State resort. Peter Blake, who contributes a chapter on Disneyland and WDW, rates the hotel and motel architecture of the latter 'considerably above Miami Beach standards.' (That is a recommendation?) No doubt, too, WDW is not only technologically newer but also physically and morally cleaner than other, amusement parks. Yet its outward aspect is no more incongruous in the Florida setting than are the derelict structures of World's Fairs along the traffic-jammed expressway to the New York airports.
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