Word: puppeteer
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...nonsense." By the 15th installment, the author was no longer harried by financial troubles and decided to seal his hero's fate by having him hanged by a devious fox and cat. But popular outrage quickly compelled him to create a lovely blue fairy who resurrected the boy puppet and guided his adventures through 21 more chapters...
Eight full-length Pinocchio feature films, including Walt Disney's 1940 epic, have been shown to audiences around the world, and countless scholarly dissertations have ruminated, sometimes woodenly, on the puppet...
Some Catholic theologians have even compared the puppet's return to life after his hanging to Christ's resurrection. Marxist writers predictably have hailed Pinocchio as a metaphorical hero in the proletarian struggle against capitalistic oppression. Psychologists have mused worriedly about the sexual symbolism of the wooden boy's protruding proboscis...
Pryce-Jones spends pages describing the structure and leading personalities of the Nazis' puppet government in Vichy. Although Henri Philippe Petain and the other chief collaborators spent much of their time outside of Paris, their influence and the attractiveness of their arguments were felt throughout the crippled capital. "It is with honor and in order to maintain French unity, a unity that has lasted ten centuries, and in the framework of the constructive activity of the new European order, that today I am embarking on the path of collaboration," Marshal Petain told Hitler in October 1940. Not only...
...only Protestantism's preeminent theologian, but a public figure. In 1934 he drafted the creed of the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," which organized German Protestantism against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...