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Finally, the council authorized a holiday drive called "Pinch the Grinch" to raise money, toys, clothes and other goods for local charity organizations...
...band. And Elvis was great, but he was a good ole boy, not a revolutionary. Jerry has been a revolutionary, a warrior, as long as I've known him. He battled for the American soul, out there on the edge of a dangerous frontier--battling the forces of the Grinch, the forces of darkness. It was a typical old flower-child battle for the forces of good and mercy and gentleness and mischief. You can't work that frontier without getting into some danger now and then. The dire wolf finally...
Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson may have been feeling a bit like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas this past week...
...Hansen, former Grinch-turned-Diplomat, who offers a unique perspective on the two cultures. "The Christmas tree has roots that reach all the way back to pre-Christian times," he says, "back to the idea of cycles of nature, and perhaps, even, the tree of life." He also notes that one of his doctoral students several years ago carried out research on the Menorah and hypothesized that its roots were also in the tree of life, preceding the time of Moses some 1700 years...
Once a year, though, like a princess who has been sleeping in rags, the town stirs itself to recall its grand traditions.The grimace crinkles into a smile, the Grinch is transformed into Santa Claus -- and the rest of the country pays homage. For New York is Christmas Central. Manhattan owns this glitziest and most sentimental of seasons, beginning with Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and culminating in Times Square on New Year...