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Oddly enough, even with the erosion of family life and the advent of electronic baby sitters, books still manage to provide the lessons of life for millions of minors. According to Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), "The time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter...
...those houses, Dr. Seuss has journeyed on beyond Spock to a place of honor in nurseries all over the world. The feeling is reciprocated. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, is a failed novelist who now believes that "adults are obsolete children and the hell with them." By devoting 41 books to kids, Geisel has become a celebrity and a millionaire without losing a sense of wonder or fantasy. His rhythmic verse rivals Lewis Carroll's, and his freestyle drawing recalls the loony sketches of Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those...
...Massachusetts zoo superintendent says that he is "more comfortable with animals with humans." But he will have a hard time making kids believe it. This month, in celebration of Geisel's 75th birthday, his audience will be happy to raise their paper cups on high and testify...
...Seuss book used to be seasonal, like baseball or oranges. No longer. Theodore Geisel is 74, and his production has slowed. Happily, his screwball has lost none of its velocity. I Can Read with My Eyes Shut...
Roman Catholic prelates have been outspokenly opposed to the emancipation decree, which has not yet been signed by Geisel. They point out that after 1911, when Brazil's first Indian protection agency was established, at least 1 million Indians died, many of them massacred with that agency's connivance. Whites who coveted Indian lands dynamited villages, gave the Indians food laced with arsenic and inoculated entire tribes with smallpox virus. If the Indians lose their land, "there will be no Indians left in 30 years," said Bishop Tomas Balduíno, the head of the Roman Catholic Church...