The Contest
Stephen and I spent this last week at the Objectivist Conference ( OCON ) in Boston. We started out the week staying in town, but finished it off commuting. As we stayed at the Seaport Hotel at the beginning of the week when we knew almost no one, we didn’t take advantage of the social atmosphere, but were happily sequestered in our room. After getting to know a few people, we dined, drank, and were generally merry with those few. Through the classes, general sessions, and referenced symposiums (in the ancient Greek sense), I left with a calmer sense of purpose, renewed motivation, and a smoldering desire to make the world a better place. By firmly placing the moral foundation under the tremendous achievements of the Founding Fathers first in my own mind, I then hope to help do so in the minds of others who have chosen the fundamental alternative to live, turning that smolder into a bonfire. One of the most immediately motivating things I learned at OCON this week regards the light tha
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I seem to remember the redheaded character, so I must have seen the movie at least once.
But I certainly do not recall the song nor that Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney where the primary voices for 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town'.
Wow! Thanks for the smile.
Do you recommend the movie as a whole?
I also remember thinking that the young red-headed school teacher, Jessica, who becomes Mrs. Kris Kringle, was the paragon of stop-action beauty (human beauty, that is - otherwise Clarice from Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer would win).
And while I'm expounding on the virtues of old Rankin/Bass gems, The Little Drummer Boy is the one that still haunts me. They took that off the air a long time ago, but not before it damaged my psyche! Man, it's scary - bad men kill his parents and paint a smile on his face and force him to play the drums! His pet gets killed and is reanimated because he plays the drums for baby Jesus. Crikey!
But enough about that. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Everybody now, "Put one foot in front of the other. . ."
(I sense a chorus song in the making.)