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...easily argue that it really belongs to the suits at CBS. During the past 30 years the network has come to own the holiday season, broadcasting more Christmas-themed movies and specials than any of its competitors. In fact, with the exception of a few annuals like Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TBS), CBS has continued to air each year almost every single children's holiday classic (see chart) created since...
That courthouse seriousness, however, is in stark contrast to the playful tone that Barksdale has set inside Netscape. Conference rooms are whimsically named after cities, prisons and characters from Dr. Seuss (the Cat in the Hat Room). Barksdale regularly works the halls, passing out praise, spinning yarns and trying to make new employees--Netscape has 700 of them so far this year--feel welcome. The company also now encourages employees to take one three-day weekend a month, and last spring Barksdale shut the whole place down for a "Netscape Escape...
...instructs them in the perils and wonders of the world they are just getting used to. Even as adults, they may retain what they believe to be a moral copyright on their memory of favorite stories. Don't dig up my Secret Garden, they protest. Don't abuse my Seuss...
WITH APOLOGIES TO THE LATE DR. SEUSS, who surely would have been wise enough to steer clear of this whole affair: "The time has come/ The time is now/ Just go, Go, GO!/ I don't care how/ You can go by foot/ Or by Bron-co/ O.J. Simpson, will you please...
...Homer or a John Ford. He often repeats himself, betraying his insecurity as a writer. What a better world this would be if its dominant faiths took their fictions not from God but from some author with greater compassion and understanding, such as Shakespeare or Herman Melville or Dr. Seuss. BOB BLACK Albany, New York...