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Tag Archives: fairy tales
Into the Woods with Blake and Sondheim
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Rumpelstiltskin, the GOP’s Dark Side
“Rumpelstiltskin,” cited by a judge turning down a Trump request, is only too applicable, both to Trump and to the GOP.
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The Tornadoes and America’s Fairy Tale
The Kentucky tornadoes bring to mind the cyclone in “Wizard of Oz.”
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The Good News: Dragons Can Be Defeated
Chesterton gave Neil Gaiman the idea that we love fairy tales because they assure us that dragons can be killed.
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Saving Princesses from the Marriage Plot
Long the target of feminist critiques, the princess story might have some progressive aspects.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Brave, Charles Perrault, Cinderella, Ella Enchanted, Feminism, Frozen, Gail Carson Levine Comments closed
My Three Sons and the Mystic Power of 3
Yesterday I was talking to my wife about our children—who, at 27 and 25, I admit are no longer children. Being the proud parents that we are, we were noting with wonder how they are identifying their gifts, building upon their strengths, and developing into fully self-actualized human beings. As we talked, however, we […]
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