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...often had so little self-confidence that he'd put a new number in his capacious trunk if anyone around him said it was less than fabulous. But he figured his songs would come back, because they always did, always do - some annually, like "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade," others in the musical-mothball equivalent of the Army Reserves. He was an astute observer of the national mood; he knew it is often changed by events over which Americans have no control, as when it is shocked into war. "There is a cynicism about patriotism and flagwaving," Berlin said, "until...
...White Christmas," 1942. Berlin wrote his Yule offering for a New York revue he'd planned in 1938-39, then put it away until the Crosby-Astaire musical "Holiday Inn." The film required numbers for New Year?s Day, Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter (he?d already written "Easter Parade"), Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The framing song was "Happy Holiday," which has since been appropriated as an all-purpose year-end carol. At first, few liked Berlin's tune about sunbelt nostalgia for a snowbelt youth (the verse places the singer...
Clothed in black, with Easter Island faces and pilgrim hats, the puppets bore labels on their chests identifying them as members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board and a frequent target of PSLM protests...
...spent Easter weekend last year at my roommate’s house in Maine. It was the first time I celebrated Easter, but the whole risen-Christ thing wasn’t really a focus of the weekend. Good company and good food were the highlights. And I watched in amazement as her parents worked together—happily, beautifully together—to produce an incredible dinner and brunch the next morning. Perhaps this is a bit maudlin for homemade eggs benedict—but homemade eggs benedict! The kitchen was not a battleground, it was a workshop. Inspired...
When and if the U.S. kills Osama bin Laden, the threat may actually increase if he is glorified as a martyr. As history has shown, most political and religious leaders, whether they be the organizers of the Irish Easter Rebellion, those who died in the Boston Massacre, or even Jesus Christ, proved much more powerful in death than in life...