Tag: teddy bear

Soft power in hard times

Over the holiday, I visited the New York Public Library’s Polonsky Exhibition, a permanent collection of “treasures” that includes the original Winnie the Pooh stuffy—a surprisingly familiar Farnell Alpha bear model donated by Christopher Robin himself. Though nearly a century older, the plushy bearedresemblance to my own childhood teddy. While[Read More…]

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