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corner.nationalreview.com - 3/3/2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
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John, While it is true that The Lorax is a soft-brained environmentalist rant, unhappily well-enough written and illustrated to capture the sentiments of children and those who read to them, many people have noticed that Theodore Geiss's worldview went left as he got older. The earlier works ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 3/2/2009
Happy Birthday to You!
— corner.nationalreview.com — Today is the birthday of the late Dr. Seuss. (Have you seen Google yet?) He certainly wasn't... a conservative. The Lorax is a parable of anti-capitalism and The Butter Battle Book is a peacenik's morally equivalent take on the Cold War. Even so, I've always maintained that his book I Had Trouble ... (more) Happy Birthday to You!
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mudvillegazette.com - 2/27/2009
Happy Birthday
— mudvillegazette.com — I've mentioned her before ... Her father was shelled on the battlefields of France on the last... day of World War One. Her future husband was in the Army during World War Two, and so were four of her brothers (plus a bunch of cousins). One sat out the end of the war in a German stalag - then ... (more) Happy Birthday

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alicublog — ... The proper response to this sort of gabble would be silence or an offer to hail the gabbler a cab so that he can get home safely. Instead it gets Lisa Schiffren who says The Lorax is "unhappily well-enough written and illustrated to capture the sentiments of children and those who read to them," which single repulsive clause explains the conservative attitude toward the arts better than anything at ...

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