Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year we've had a lecture series, two retreats, a service program involving participation with the elderly, projects in refurbishing the centre and the basement of St. Paul's and a newsletter. In fact on Easter Sunday we had 150 people at a 5 a.m. sunrise service and that impressed me," Powers said...
...emphasis is on cash-and-carry and self-service. Fabrics are precut to more marketable sizes, clothing is clustered by size instead of type to encourage impulse buying (sportswear and fancy dresses are mixed together). Finally, liquidators mark additional discounts on such seasonal items as greeting cards, chocolate Easter eggs and summer furniture...
...Christmas. All my life I have been surrounded by city-sponsored and commercially-sponsored Christmas displays. All the public schools I have attended have had Christmas trees and Christmas assemblies, and, although we have had a "winter break" and a "spring vacation," they always happened to include Christmas and Easter. For me and for many other people at this University, Christmas is not a joyous holiday--it is a time when we are reminded that the United States is a Christian nation and, as such, excludes...
...poor would not make a dent in local hardship; unemployment in the parish runs to 30%. So the kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just one for me." George Charles, a department manager for the gas company, was among the many executives who were moved. "It was a very innovative approach," he says...
They aren't real, none of them, and maybe nobody knows what it is the pictures have trapped. The easter eggs made of alumnium that look like walnuts, the other figurines on top of roofs in a picture of a family at the fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become...