Word: seuss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bread (and other food) than its Harvard counterparts. Nothing fancy, but fresh, out-of-the-oven bread, and you cut it yourself... The first thing the Crimson hoop squad saw as its bus steamed into Hanover was a still-unfinished ice sculpture of that master of kiddie lit, Dr. Seuss. After a little investigative reporting, one learned that the good doctor is a Dartmouth alumnus and this weekend's Winter Carnival is a tribute to him.... Football wide receiver-turned-basketball forward Wally Rutecki hit an inside shot at the buzzer to give the Crimson JV hoopsters a hard-fought...
...child's earliest modes of transportation to the province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human is usually waiting in the wings...
Oddly enough, even with the erosion of family life and the advent of electronic baby sitters, books still manage to provide the lessons of life for millions of minors. According to Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), "The time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter...