Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance of J.S. Bach's Passion According to St. John at Sanders Theater has become almost an annual affair. The Passion was originally performed as a liturgical drama around Easter, but it has lost some of its religious connotations through the centuries and is now a staple in choral repertoire. Saturday night the Cecilia Society, an outstanding local chorus, celebrates its 100th anniversary with a performance of the Passion featuring some of Boston's finest vocalists on the solo parts. Backing up the singers will be the Cambridge Festival Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Tickets available at the door...
...mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating the approaches to Central Dublin. "You have but one life to live and one death to die," he exhorted them. "See that you do both like men." They held out for almost a week, and were the last Republican unit to surrender...
...Murmansk area have been ruthlessly shortchanged on their pay and forced to pay bribes for permits to put out to sea. They have been fighting back, but so far the only result is that many of the protesters have been fired or confined to psychiatric hospitals. This year Easter Sunday was declared a working day. No one dared protest except two priests, one of whom was arrested...
...earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens of Easter-bonnet hats, she also queried officials in a come-out-and-fight soprano voice for many years on Meet the Press...
...every buyer is a musical amnesiac. Gamesplayers, for example, might have their own use for Parsons' manual. What do the following songs have in common: Beautiful Dreamer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Summertime, Easter Parade, You're the Top, and Yes, We Have No Bananas'? In Parsons' code they all share the opening signature...