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...same questions they always have Forster's book has pointed out clearly what those questions are and highlighted some of the difficult choices that women today must make The struggles of the women she portrays have increased the choices available to modern women and have made her circumstances much easter to bear, but they have not necessarily made the choosing any order...
...slightest gesture on his part with regard to ecumenism sets the example for the entire community," says Gomes, who has invited Law to preach to his congregation on the Sunday after Easter...
...Czar Alexander III asked a St. Petersburg jeweler, Carl Faberge, to make an Easter present for his Empress. The gold and enamel egg so pleased the monarch that he commissioned at least one every Easter. His successor, Nicholas II, continued the tradition, and for the next 31 years, until the Bolsheviks put an end to such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside...
...EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but the issue is deemed unworthy of protest. Rally organizers demand that the signs be removed...
Ever since its protesters disrupted Easter Sunday services in Pittsburgh's wealthiest Presbyterian church, Denominational Ministry Strategy has become the best-publicized clergy group in Pennsylvania. Made up largely of Lutherans and Episcopalians, DMS and its militant labor-union allies want to force the Mellon Bank and U.S. Steel to pump more money into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated...