Word: seuss
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Advertisers want the kids most of all. And how do you get kids? Cartoons! Right gang. Now if you all get in a circle, I'll give you the names of some of those too-sweet 'toons. Dec. 19th at 8 p.m. on CBS is Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," with the late Boris Karloff narrating; ABC, at 7 p.m. on the 16th features "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," and at 8 p.m. the next night, the always cool Pink Panther in "A Pink Christmas." NBC, not to be outdone, offers my personal favorite, Casper The Friendly...
...Seuss prescribes a sense of wonder and fantasy
...those houses, Dr. Seuss has journeyed on beyond Spock to a place of honor in nurseries all over the world. The feeling is reciprocated. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, is a failed novelist who now believes that "adults are obsolete children and the hell with them." By devoting 41 books to kids, Geisel has become a celebrity and a millionaire without losing a sense of wonder or fantasy. His rhythmic verse rivals Lewis Carroll's, and his freestyle drawing recalls the loony sketches of Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those...
...Seuss book used to be seasonal, like baseball or oranges. No longer. Theodore Geisel is 74, and his production has slowed. Happily, his screwball has lost none of its velocity. I Can Read with My Eyes Shut...
...From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." Thus spoke Dr. Seuss, and true enough. Novelist Erich Maria Remarque made a kindred point: "Not to laugh at the 20th century is to shoot yourself." Yet the sad fact is that mirth in the U.S. is neither what it once was nor what it might be. As early as 1968, in The Rise and Fall of American Humor, English Professor Jesse Bier solemnly declared that "we are in great part humorless as never before." Other humor experts, who cannily refuse to be associated with their opinions, believe...