Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring weather seems finally to have caught up with the calendar and once again the stately Memorial Drive Sycamores are cautiously displaying their yellow buds to commuters, strollers, lollers, and all the other riverbank passers...
April 1965 coincides roughly with Dhu-al-Hijja in the year 1384 A.H. (after the hegira). It is the last month of Islam's lunar calendar, and the season to perform the hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy places of Mecca that for devout Moslems is both spiritual duty and lifetime dream. More than 1,200,000 pilgrims entered Mecca to carry out the prayers and ablutions of Islam's most sacred ritual (see following color pictures of last year's hajj). Luckily, this year there were no outbreaks of typhoid or cholera like those that have...
...event when a student magazine appears at Harvard; the only one that arrives with any regularity these days is the HSA Calendar. This winter the Lion Rampantemerged from Winthrop House looking very triumphant in its shiny new cover. Looks, unfortunately, aren't everything...
...story of Jesus unfolds, midrash, myths, Gospel and all, in a series of stately tableaux, each as literal and conventional as religious calendar art. In the first scene, the three Magi ride toward Bethlehem through a night drenched in blue. Of the miracles performed by Christ, Stevens offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems...
...Rapid Action." Prompt and vigorous Government action, Johnson said, can prevent recessions. "I do not believe recessions are inevitable. Up to now, every past expansion has ended in recession or depression-usually within three years from its start. But the vulnerability of an expansion cannot be determined by the calendar. Imbalance-not old age-is the threat to sustained advance...