Christmas television

The relationship between television advertising, children's viewing and their requests to Father Christmas.

OBJECTIVE Children's letters to Father Christmas provide an opportunity to use naturalistic methods to investigate the influence of television advertising. METHODS This study investigates the number of toy requests in the letters of children aged between 6 and 8 (n = 98) in relation to their television viewing and the frequency of product advertisements prior to Christmas. Seventy-six hours o...

Christmas Days

Some of the achievements at festivities and exhibitions are greeted with surprise. It is not always possible to have the privilege of personal inspection, though those in charge of defectives are usually most ready to give of their precious leisure in showingvisitors what is being done.. The following notes giving different accounts of Christmas activities have been kindly sent to us. They may ...

Christmas disease.

Memories of Christmas past.

A Christmas hymn.

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...