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Banning the bomb has become an outdoor sport that threatens to surpass bird watching in Britain. On Good Friday last year, 20,000 demonstrators gathered at Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston, carrying knapsacks and pushing prams; they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...
...Jazz Age and The Innocent Years (1900-14). For early next year, Hyatt & Co. have prepared a program on American music in the '305 and an examination of The Real West (Gary Cooper narrating) that should leave the average TV oater looking like whinny the pooh. And this Easter or next Project Twenty will complete its life of Christ, taking the story step by step through Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Mantegna's Ascension...
...removing the Christmas legend from the tradition of sweetness and light, Orff had given all the good lines to the forces of darkness. When the witches were offstage, the hour-long pageant was static, lacked the exciting, full-blooded drama found in most of his work, including his Easter play, Comoedia de Christi Resurrectione. But the musical backgrounds were compelling, and the enthusiastic première audience demanded 15 curtain calls...
...melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, O'Casey could release his anger and compassion alike, could expose the failings of his compatriots in the very act of exhibiting the fortitude. The immemorial heartbreak of For men must work and women must weep was to be mixed with a colder appraisal of the men themselves...