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...Glee Is Good...
Toys are a trapeze, swinging us from age to age. Those that leave nothing to the imagination never sweep us off our feet. So maybe it's good news that toys have turned out not to be recession-proof after all: analysts called last year's holiday sales the worst fourth quarter in decades - and it was the flashy, buzzy gizmos that fell fastest, while the classics held their own. Kids like the dough more than the cookies, the box just as much as what's inside. This is a rare case when the straps around your wallet serve...
...come up with your catchphrase "Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average...
...needed to solve the problem of any writer telling a story--how do you end it? You can do a gentle fadeaway: "He went to the window and looked out into the darkness. Snow was falling gently through the spruce trees." But that's not good for half the year. If you just pause and say, "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average," problem solved...
...cozy connotations of ancient traditions as old as King Wenceslas, but Christmas caroling as we know it dates back to the 19th Century and not much further. In fact, caroling itself didn't always involve Christmas, and the ancient tradition of traveling from house to house to wish neighbors good cheer didn't always involve singing. There's a distinction to be made between carols - songs stemming from medieval musical traditions - and today's Christmas caroling, says Daniel Abraham, musicology expert and choral director at American University in Washington, D.C. "The concept of carol in its origins has actually nothing...