Word: seuss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the museum last week some 90 white, Negro and Mexican children from Southern California schools were enjoying a frenzy of creative activity. And everywhere, prancing excitedly among the kids, was a frenetic 63-year-old man whose lean face crinkled often with laughter. It was Dr. Seuss, the cartoonist and writer, whose zany animals (The Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Yertle the Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told...
...Obsolete Children." This happy nonsense was byplay at the museum's six-week summer workshop, the latest effort by Dr. Seuss, actually Theodor Seuss Geisel, to stir the imagination of children. The workshop seems to be doing just that. The kids use the backs of dolls to make small cars for the streets of the model city; they record the city's sounds and transform them-slowed tapes of a pingpong ball bouncing on concrete boom like a distant gun; the filming gives them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment...
Points Against Prejudice. While Dr. Seuss's young readers laugh, they also learn the value of patience from Horton, who sits on a bird's egg in a tree for eleven trying months, gets his reward when he hatches an elephant-bird. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose is a model of kindness who lets animals ride on his horns because "a host, above all, must be nice to his guests." Geisel wrote about "star-bellied Sneetches," who thought they were better than "plain-bellied Sneetches," to score points against prejudice. He does not mind being called "the greatest...
...GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). Boris Karloff does the talking in an animated special based on Dr. Seuss's fable of the wicked Grinch atop Mount Crumpit and his attempt to keep Christmas from coming to the Whos living below in the village of Whoville...
...SEUSS PRESENTS . . . (RCA Camden) If I Ran the Zoo's menagerie of Flustard beast and Bustard bird will keep the youngsters wide-eyed-and the flip-side Sleep Book is guaranteed to make them go to sleep with the other yawning ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and two creatures...