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...frenzied, orgiastic gift-giving. It inevitably took a team of psychiatrists several months to rebuild the monomaniacal old man's psyche, and Santa inevitably spent the rest of the year following his recovery doing a slow build-up to that December night when he would once again rush his reindeer through the skies like some off-course Finnish astronaut on methedrine...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...song, because old Claus had no idea that his hobby was of any value, and besides, his doctors had been urging him for years to retire for his health. His job gave him ulcers. So Santa left Christmas behind to spend his last years breeding mutant strains of reindeer for high-speed sleigh competition, and Amalgamated Widget became The Santa Corporation...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...Santa Claus and many religious leaders objected at first when Christmas Day became Christmas Long Weekend, but The Santa Corporation created Claus Reindeer Raceway to mollify the jolly golden-age elf, and the company paid spiritual operatives to develop splinter sects for Christmas Reformists...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...feed children reindeer meat," one of a pair of Hare Krishna monks said yesterday as he walked through Harvard and Central Squares handing out pamphlets and candy and asking for money...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and James L. Tyson jr., S | Title: 'Tis the Season to Spend | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...lobby was wall-to-wall people," said one employee. The 500 patients at the Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital crowded a little closer so that some 2,000 unexpected visitors could find places to sleep. Near the city zoo, residents saw a strange sight befitting the arctic scene: reindeer roaming in their backyards. The herd had escaped from the zoo by simply walking across a snow-packed moat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Buffalo: Camaraderie and Tragedy | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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