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Kids may wonder which Santa is real and why there are so many of him; yet Santa Claus remains a significant symbol to most children, the fat and jolly bringer of Battlestar Galactica and Baby Tenderlove. While collegians' thoughts may turn more to Santa Barbara than Santa Claus, the ubiquitous elf cannot easily be ignored. As the song goes, Santa Claus is coming to town--in force...
...Egyptians, who recorded this prayer to their Sun God nearly 3,400 years ago, called him Ra; the Sumerians named him Utu; the Incas, Inti; and the Greeks, Helios or Apollo. Mankind has always worshiped the sun as the bringer of life and warmth, and still does so today. The idols are gone, but a growing group of scientists and environmentally concerned solar enthusiasts dreams of discovering an easy, efficient and economical method of harnessing the sun's clean energy to supplement increasingly costly and chancy fuels like oil, coal and natural...
MYTHS by Alexander Eliot. 320 pages. McGraw-Hill. $39.95. This dizzying book hurls the reader around the world and across the centuries in pursuit of the common roots of mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell...
With its meritocratic bias, our industrial civilization has emphasized the acquisition of information; thus our exploitation of machines that increase either transmission or reception has always been remarkable. Americans hailed the early typewriter as the bringer of universal literacy and world peace; our predictions about telephones, radio, film and television have been similarly cosmic. American Utopias, as in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, gloried in a world linked by instantaneous communications; current proponents of cable television see this form as the solution to a remarkable medley of social ills...
...early '70s, which represented the deepest divisions in U.S. society since the Depression and perhaps the Civil War. Increasingly, audiences have confused the reportage and analysis provided by newsmen with the events themselves, mistaking the messenger for the message. Post Publisher Katharine Graham quotes Shakespeare: "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell...