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Good Promotion. One of the most practical methods, suggests Pleuthner, is to glamorize the regular Sunday services between the great church festivals of Christmas and Easter by dedicating them to special groups and purposes. Examples: Founders' Day Sunday ("Why not honor those families that founded your church?"); Good Neighbor Sunday (special letters of invitation from the minister to all members of the neighborhood) ; Medical Sunday ("Reserve the front pews for families of doctors or nurses"); Flower Sunday ("when due tribute is paid to God for His gift of flowers to our world...
...some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...
This muscular young miss grimaces and screams; indeed, it is a tribute to Astaire's sure and quick footing that she does not step on his toes. She is as out of place as would be a haggard Navaho dancing tom-tom circles in the Easter Parade. If one could only blot out her image, the film would be vastly improved, as it is during three brief dance sequences when Astaire is alone and unmolested...
...year-old down-Easter went at his barbering with the same slapdash spirit that characterized his paintings. On Sunday he hacked off the beard, but didn't have the heart to disturb his drooping, discolored mustache. On Wednesday he emerged new-mown from the bathroom minus even the mustache. "Ellen," he said of his young, pretty wife (his fourth), "had never seen my face naked, and I thought I'd better let her have a look...
...through characters who seem quite ordinary, for he judges that in every man there is a dimension of disease. In Mr. Arcularis he shows the terror of death through the emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...