Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house to house for the people to kiss. On Easter Sunday, as on the days before, the whole town goes to Mass and most of the 6,000 inhabitants hang their best embroidered bedspreads or tablecloths from their balconies...
...young rodent hopped to life in the pages of a cautionary tale. His name was Peter, and he was to become the most celebrated rabbit since the Easter Bunny. Now, upon his 75th birthday, the little creature betrays no signs of age-or, for that matter, maturity. Nor do Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments...
Jimmy Carter is not unaware of the problems he has caused. In order to avoid creating even more chaos, he has decided not to go home for Easter this year. Instead, he will travel to Calhoun, Ga., where Son Jack lives. When the President discussed this plan with his brother by telephone, Billy told him he could come home if he wanted. "You being here won't make it any worse than it already is," said Billy to the leader of the free world...
...Jesus of Nazareth, created not for the movies but for television. For sheer spectacle and expense ($18 million), nothing like it, religious or otherwise, has ever been attempted on TV. The two-part film will fill three hours of prime time on NBC on both Palm Sunday and Easter,* and it is well worth viewing. Director Zeffirelli, an Italian and a Roman Catholic, has brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft...
Kathy Coakley '80 of Pennypacker said yesterday she was ambivalent about the storm. "The snow is all right," she said. "I just hope it stops by Easter break...