Bah! Humbug!
December, 1971
George Bernard Shaw put it rather nicely when he called Christmas "an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject," concluding that if he had his way, "anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages." Ebenezer Scrooge, however, was a bit more succinct. "'If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly,...
