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...House Without a Christmas Tree is a special that somehow got lost in the mass-remarketing of old Christmas fare. Like The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the 1971 special that spawned the series The Waltons), it's a lovingly but realistically told story that touches the emotional essence of Christmas without indulging in its kitschy excess...
Hence, the house without a Christmas tree - and Addie's crafty yet always thwarted means of getting her dad to let one glow in the living room. But what distinguishes this poignant tale (written by Eleanor Perry from the story by Gail Rock, and directed by Paul Bogart, one of the All In the Family sitcom directors) is that it avoids the patented feel-good denouement of most Christmas dramas and takes us through a richer, more believable change in Robards' character. The inner hurt Addie endures at the hands of a father who can barely tolerate her presence...
...this case the right thing is also the Christmas thing - the sort of charitable spirit we want kids to absorb from any religious holiday for that matter. In that sense, The House Without a Christmas Tree is also a pleasant reminder of when Christmas was a less neurotic observance, not yet caught in today's tiresome crossfire between the Jesus-is-the-only-reason-for-the-season zealots and the your-Nativity-creche-is-a-symbol-of-Western-oppression cranks. The holiday still belonged to kids: we didn't approach it like Christian fundamentalists and we didn't consider...
...down. "The main trigger behind deforestation is that there's little or no value for standing forests," says Paulo Moutinho, who studies Brazilian forests for the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). Put a value on forests in the carbon market, and suddenly it makes sense to leave a tree be, rather than clear it for cheap pastureland. The value doesn't even have to be that high - a new report by WHRC found that it might cost as little as $10 per sq km in some areas to make conservation pay better than destruction. "That's cheap by today...
Stories by the Brothers Grimm are not as kid-friendly as children’s books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little...