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WIDELY CONSIDERED the cream of the T.V. Christmas specials crop, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is for many a high point of the college year. By all estimates the Grinch ranks within the top ten Christmas Characters. But the Grinch and the residents of Whoville must now be placed on the endangered species list, since advertisers' depredations have reduced the once proud Grinch to a shadow of his former self. Commercials are slowly edging the Grinch...
...Grinch decides to come to Harvard Square this winter, he'll have one heck of a hard time trying to steal Christmas from local merchants...
...license plates on his silver Cadillac bear the word GRINCH. But no one in his neighborhood of La Jolla, Calif., is fooled. The driver is no grouch. He is Theodor Geisel, better known by his flowing pseudonymous signature Dr. Seuss. He celebrated turning 80 last week by turning out his 42nd children's story, The Butter Battle Book (Random House; 48 pages; $6.95). An arms-race "preachment," as he calls it, the tale features no grinches, just a confrontational competition between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with...
CHRISTMAS WOULDN'T BE the same without the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, alias "The Grinch") waging its annual legal campaign to remove Nativity scenes or "creches" from Christmas displays. Numerous courtroom challenges and conflicting decisions have transformed the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment into a bewildering legal enigma. But the U.S. Supreme Court this year may substantially clarify the extent to which municipalities can promote the religious aspects of Christmas in the pending case of Lynch v Donnelly...
...publicly funded display. There is certainly no shortage of alternative private sites for creches. The avoidance of a bitter community division must play the guiding principle. This is a lesson the ACLU surely needs to learn: Christmas this year in Pawtucket will miss much of the holiday spirit. The Grinch must be green with envy...