Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily. Meanwhile, Palestine's people live on edge, wait for the next blow from either side. This year Jews and Arabs will stay inside their respective fortified areas as the rest of the world celebrates the 1947 anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Peace. The bright star which guided the Wise Men to the Manger will probably be outshone by the Very lights which British troops in Jerusalem's Old City send up through the long hours of night to spot rooftop snipers. As a new state is aborning in this ancient land, Palestine knows...
...when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came three wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" . . . And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened...
...Salvador Dali used a Christmas angel and Star of Bethlehem for a timely nylon ad-a painting hardly more offensive than the mawkish Madonnas and cute little representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What...
They told him, with almost embarrassing alacrity-in more than 350 letters. Many suggested that the Star-Times take the beam out of its own eye by cleaning up its comic strips. It couldn't very well do that, said the Star-Times lamely; if it dropped comic strips, they-and their readers-would be snapped up by competitors. It was no use complaining to the syndicates; their attitude was that most of their customers were satisfied, so take it or leave...
...Star-Times "frequently omits panels and columns which it considers offensive, but rarely does it omit a comic strip, because it breaks the continuity . . . and results in a deluge of protests, usually by telephone." (Last week the paper threw out two panels of a series called Cuties because they were too leggy.) It was not much of an answer. The same sort of excuse could be made by every mass medium the Star-Times had indicted. But at least the Star-Times had cocked a snook at the problem-and then run like hell...