Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lent isn't what it used to be. Throughout Christendom, churches are relaxing the rigors of the traditional time of penance before Easter...
While even skillful cameramen cannot transform Bates's boringly vacant expressions, elsewhere the photography is superb. It captures the harshness of the landscape and the flowers which spring up at Easter time. And it focuses on the expressions of the people of Crete (thus listed in the credits...
...southward push became so urgent over Washington's Birthday weekend that even Bermuda, where the season usually begins at Easter, was overbooked, despite chilly temperatures. The crowds overflowed from the more popular islands like Jamaica and Barbados outward to lesser-knowns: Martinique, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Grenada are all filled to the gunwales. In Mexico, Acapulco is jammed and, in Puerto Vallarta, beach space is hard to come by. The big boom, which began before Christmas, reached its peak in mid-January and has stayed there ever since...
Almost a year ago, on Easter weekend of 1964, SNCC held its spring conference in Atlanta. There were less than a hundred staff members than, and they gathered to plan what was known as the Mississippi Project. (Although the Project was officially run by the Council of Federated Organizations, SNCC provided at least 80 per cent of the funds and manpower...
...felt that white northern students could not relate to the Southern Negro community and carry out the complex work of voter registration. Others had felt that a massive influx of civil-rights workers into Mississippi could only result in murderous reprisals from an inflamed white community. But on Easter Sunday, 1964, SNCC members began leaving for their projects in the Black Belt, carrying with them the preparatory plans for the Summer Project...