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Archives for December 2012

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

December 16, 2012 by InThePastLane 5 Comments

InThePastLane                                                                            Edward T. O’Donnell We’ve all heard the expression before as a means of acknowledging skeptical surprise. Sometimes it’s the full version—“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”—and other times it’s … [Read more...]

A Historian’s Defense of “Happy Holidays”

December 8, 2012 by InThePastLane 4 Comments

[NB: a version of this op-ed ran in the NY Daily News and Worcester Telegram in 2011] Here we go again. If it's December  then it’s officially the beginning of that annual ritual established a few years ago — the month-long explosion of outrage on talk radio and cable TV over an alleged “War … [Read more...]

White Christmas Was A War Song?

December 2, 2012 by InThePastLane Leave a Comment

“White Christmas,” the song that first topped the charts in early December 1942, was a war song?  It’s true—not in its lyrics of days that are “merry and bright,” of course, but in terms of the context that launched it to an exalted status in the annals of pop music history. In fact, the connection … [Read more...]

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