All I Want for Xmas Is the Truth

SUBHEAD: Scholarly research provides us with some important ideas about the holiday season.By Peter M. Nardi on 20 December 2010 in Miller-McCune -(http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-truth-26260)Image above: Detail of "Adoration of the Shepards" by Anton Raphael Mengs (circa 1750). From (http://www.abcgallery.com/M/mengs/mengs.html).By now, if you hear