He also portrayed the Professor, Greeno the Clown, the New Old Folk Singer, and Mr. Green Jeans (Hugh Brannum) would have different animals at times to show. Moose was setting the Captain up for the ritual ping-pong drop on the Captain’s head that never got old. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Dancing Bear, and Mr. Keeshan was Captain Kangaroo and every morning I would look forward to seeing The Captain, Mr. The show spanned many generations of kids during that time. In 1955 CBS offered Keeshan his own children’s show, which became Captain Kangaroo. Captain Kangaroo ran from 1955 to 1984. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to Keeshan played Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Central to his plea to join the EU, Ned says, has been the fact that Ukrainians “are sacrificing their livelihoods and even their lives not merely to defend their country against an invader, but in defense of a Western, democratic way of life.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: There’s a new desire to expand the tent of membership – to bring more countries in and trust the influence of the EU to drive change where democratic or economic progress is needed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a compelling argument. Ned says it is a new inflection point in European history, following World War II and the Cold War. The EU had other things to deal with, most particularly the historic number of migrants arriving from Africa and the Middle East. But the Ukraine war has underscored the importance of rethinking Europe’s most prestigious club. It’s about Europe’s vision for what it wants to be going forward. For years, admitting additional Eastern European members was not a priority. But it’s really much more about what Ned calls “the third seismically redefining event of modern European history.” So, a big deal.

It is. The subject of the column is the European Union.

Is it really as big a deal as it sounds? Yes, he says. And Pakistan appears to finally be realizing that its long-standing support of the Taliban might not be the greatest idea. But Ned Temko’s Patterns column prompted me to reach out to him. (No, the Republic of Super Neighbors is not the next Marvel film.) Meanwhile, New Hampshire is fighting tooth and nail to keep its place on the presidential primary calendar, though many Democrats are not impressed. Supreme Court term, which will aim to deepen the court’s conservative revolution, as well as our weekly roundup of progress around the world. We’ve got stories for you on the new U.S.

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