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...that she shares the big-hearted pluck of another 10-year-old girl who made a lasting impression on my 1972 Christmas, when I myself was 10. Her name was Addie Mills, the heroine of a spare but moving TV drama called The House Without a Christmas Tree - which by happy coincidence was just released on DVD. Yule-o-philes will want to add it to the red-and-green boxes they pull out of their attics each holiday season...
...year-olds [Dec. 10]. But he ignored the generation of the moment - the boomers. We too have our own iconic Christmas movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished house we are left with. Yet, despite it all, we say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year...
...apathetic. Just to prove those dirty hippies wrong, here are some House-list feud subjects from the past year, proving that Harvard students really, really do care about the world around them. 1) Season’s Greetings: PfoHo residents got into a heated debate about the Christmas tree in their dining hall. Guess Santa won’t be stopping there. 2) Currier got pretty pissed that Mather stole their wreaths. Christmas is just not the same without the fake pine. 3) Eliotites doesn’t want to eat “poo-shaped?...
...Ornaments on main tree...
...that the House has seen through at least two student-focused initiatives. Following a controversy over the holiday season several years ago, Kargère pushed for the celebration of Festivus, the Seinfeld-inspired multi-cultural celebratory event that uses an aluminum pole in the place of a Christmas tree. The House also transformed a largely unused underground space into “one of the nicest weight rooms” in the House system, he said. Luciana Herman, an expository writing preceptor and a resident tutor in Quincy House, has been tapped to serve as the acting resident dean...