Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turner pointed out that American's proposal would not be effective from December 15-21, the Thursday before Easter, and the Wednesday before and Sunday following Thanksgiving would also be excluded. Thus, said Turner, there would be little effect on HSA's regular term-time flights. He added that at present there is little demand for a Harvard flight in either June or September, times that would be affected by the proposal...
...Green, her ninth novel, is neither her best book nor her worst, but it is a revealing showcase for her wares. In writing a story of an Irish family during the tense week before the abortive Easter rising in 1916, she is perfectly at home with her surroundings and impressively knowledgeable about her history and the Irish character. The plot, if there is one, is not important, and Author Murdoch does not make the mistake of trying to make it so. The uprising fails somewhat comically, and nothing is changed much-not even the family caught...
...other things. Could it be that the theme of religious faith inspired him to outdo himself? It is undeniable that, over the years, this theme has stimulated playwrights to remarkable and frequently their best work-from Prometheus Bound, Antigone and The Bacchae through Tartuffe, Athalie, Faust and Brand to Easter, Partage de Midi, Murder in the Cathedral, Galileo, Billy Budd, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Waiting for Godot...
...unknowable things for which they stand-a distinction that sometimes led him into such odd locutions as "the God above God." On this score, he was the despair of the orthodox, who always wanted to know whether he thought that the tomb was really empty on that first Easter morning. When Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into Heaven, one eminent Jesuit friend of Tillich's was looking forward to having a lively argument with him on the subject. "But Paul said he saw no difficulty with the doctrine whatsoever...
...strolled a block or two to the office of an attorney whom he had met at St. Paul's and encountered several times since. This time our visit was more cordial. We had given him and his wife a copy of "My people is the Earth" for Easter, and I think they were deeply touched. This time he was less suspicious, less defensive, less insistent that we get the hell out of town." We had talked this time of the Gospel, of what a white moderate could do when he discovered that the White Citizen's Council wasn...