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There were a few memorable quotations from the fleeting days of John Paul, and the Vatican found some of them unsettling. At his first audience he quoted Pinocchio and compared the soul in the modern world to an automobile that breaks down because it runs on champagne and marmalade instead of gasoline and oil. Meeting with the Vatican press corps, he tossed off the notion that today St. Paul, who carried the news of Christ around the Mediterranean world, would probably be the head of a wire service. There were his sternly pastoral addresses deploring divorce to a group...
...Pinocchio's--Eliot St. near Boylston St. Here it is fans, the best pizza in the Square. Somehow these guys do it just right every time...perfect crust, just the right combination of cheese and sauce, and always expertly cooked. You can't beat it, even if it is a little expensive, and often very crowded...
...often elegant in operation, noble in design. But when we have to make difficult concrete moral choices, they give us little help." In the absence of clear social guidelines, she says, casual lying has become entrenched in America. Indeed. Social Psychologist Jerald Jellison estimates that the average American outstrips Pinocchio by telling a whopping 200 lies a day, including white lies and false excuses ("Sorry I'm late. I was tied up at the office...
Shiftless Schemers. The Japanese bear no grudge against Pinocchio himself, who in Collodi's tale is afflicted with disabilities enough before achieving his dream of becoming a flesh-and-blood boy. Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless...
Yasuo Shikata, 36, leader of the Wash Pinocchio group, feels that the cleaning up has not gone far enough. He notes that at least one uneuphemized edition of Pinocchio, printed in 1967, is still on sale. He complains that illustrations of the cat wearing opaque eyeglasses and the fox struggling along on a crutch "give the impression of the abjectness of disability and stress discrimination against disabled unfortunates." The group's campaign has drawn a public apology for "thoughtlessness" from the major Japanese publisher of the children's classic, along with promises to withdraw at least four editions...