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...Roviano, sly Scacchi used different tactics. He appeared conspicuously at Christmas and Easter Mass, even appointed himself to march the communicants to the rail in orderly fashion. His motto: "Above party divisions, we are first of all the village." Christian Democrats grumbled but could not complain openly...
...people, living under appalling conditions, went to church during Easter week, they listened to music, not as the bourgeois Swiss or Americans listen to it, but as a source of escape from squalor and misery into the beauty that only music under such conditions can provide. All over Germany last week hungry, tired, confused little people were listening to the Passions according to Matthew and John of Bach crowding into unheated churches and into dark cathedrals with boarded windows. They began during mid-afternoon (so people could get home before the subways closed at 9:30) and continued as night...
...Easter Eve, Russians of all ages, types and uniforms milled about with the candles they would light at midnight. The greatest excitement centered around Epiphany Cathedral, where the Patriarch Alexei-assisted by his metropolitans and bishops-would officiate. Twelve thousand Muscovites churned and shouted gaily in the clear starry night outside. Inside the cathedral were 7,000 more, unlit candles in hand...
Outside, at 2 a.m. Easter morning, thousands still stood before the cathedral, listening to the music and occasionally crossing themselves. As they drifted away, acquaintances gave the traditional Russian Easter greeting, "Christ is risen," and the answer, "He is truly risen," and exchanged the ceremonial three kisses...
...other scholars before him, he was struck by resemblances between the cultures of Polynesia and South America. Both regions have "stepped" pyramids, "megalithic" structures, elaborate feather-work. Both cultivate sweet potatoes and call them by names which closely resemble their ancient Peruvian name: kumara. The strange stone heads on Easter Island look a great deal like some sculpture in Peru...