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A Special Golden Animation Anniversary. The final story in our 2016 50th Anniversary series. Herbie J Pilato The Nightmare Before Christmas was released in 1993, there was television’s mere half-hour How The Grinch Stole Christmas, an edgy, yet ultimately warm-hearted musical that debuted on CBS December 18, 1966, and which has aired every year since. With a script by Irv Spectre and Bob Ogle, The Grinch was based on the beloved 1957 book by Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodore Seuss Geisel, who pass...

platforms opposed consolidation of big business, the trusts or the monopolies at the time and it was also a time of a lot of upheaval in the country, upheaval among workers, upheaval among black and white, to the beginning of a modernist culture in america. it was a very exciting time. >> you use the term progressivism and we hear that term today. what is your definition of that? >> my students ask that and it takes a while to explain it. what it meant at the time it people wanted a mo...

annual lecture, which bill was acknowledged not only by the wonderful talk, but because of a book he co-authored with james tatum, the dartmouth classics department on african-american writing and the classical tradition. its a wonderful book, and the book is also available in the bookstore. i want to begin by asking the members of the audience, how many of you as children had dr. seuss read to you? let me see a show of hands. a good one half. none of us are too old. and how many of yo...