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...poor would not make a dent in local hardship; unemployment in the parish runs to 30%. So the kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just one for me." George Charles, a department manager for the gas company, was among the many executives who were moved. "It was a very innovative approach," he says...
They aren't real, none of them, and maybe nobody knows what it is the pictures have trapped. The easter eggs made of alumnium that look like walnuts, the other figurines on top of roofs in a picture of a family at the fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become...
...performance of J.S. Bach's Passion According to St. John at Sanders Theater has become almost an annual affair. The Passion was originally performed as a liturgical drama around Easter, but it has lost some of its religious connotations through the centuries and is now a staple in choral repertoire. Saturday night the Cecilia Society, an outstanding local chorus, celebrates its 100th anniversary with a performance of the Passion featuring some of Boston's finest vocalists on the solo parts. Backing up the singers will be the Cambridge Festival Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Tickets available at the door...
...mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating the approaches to Central Dublin. "You have but one life to live and one death to die," he exhorted them. "See that you do both like men." They held out for almost a week, and were the last Republican unit to surrender...
...Murmansk area have been ruthlessly shortchanged on their pay and forced to pay bribes for permits to put out to sea. They have been fighting back, but so far the only result is that many of the protesters have been fired or confined to psychiatric hospitals. This year Easter Sunday was declared a working day. No one dared protest except two priests, one of whom was arrested...