Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dope, more robberies, more rapes, more of everything." That kind of reaction is not untypical of parents when they are first told that their children must be bused away. I'll lay my body in front of any bus. I'll chain myself to the school doors," cried Douglas Easter of Boston's Jamaica Plain, when he was informed that his children would have to attend a school three miles away...
...good for them. It's good for us too." Most instructors have willingly given up their usual summer vacations or moonlighting jobs for the chance to earn twelve weeks worth of extra pay (they still get a total of three weeks off during breaks for Christmas, Easter and July Fourth...
...performance is very pleasant. (As I'm a sucker for spirituals, even for fake-cheery ones. I found the Negro's (Leonard Easter's) "Feelin'Good" more than pleasant.) All the parts are essentially ham turns, and they're played until every last ounce of fat is caught. The choreography is, appropriately, elbow-swinging and gymnastic (except for a nice, modest ballet by Debbie Coleman). The new Leverett House Old Library Theater, with its small scale and wood panelling, is quite cozy--one enters through the stage, which is attractively cluttered with Jack Hanick's set: bright, upended trapezoid canvases...
...church and to turn, said Berger, to a more significant question: "What does the church have to say to modern man?" The answer is easy: it is "the old story of God's dealing with man, the story that spans the Exodus and Easter morning." There are very different ways in which this message can be delivered, and what is now needed is "the stance of authority," the authority of "those who have come to terms with their own experience and who are convinced that in however imperfect a measure, they have grasped some important truths about our human...
...exploits them. "I am not affected by any past bitternesses," he says. At 54, Lynch is a realist whose election five years ago marked the end of the era of charismatic strongmen with revolutionary pasts-William Cosgrave, Eamon de Valera, Sean Lemass. Born the year after the 1916 Easter Rising, he is the Irish Republic's first Prime Minister, or Taoiseach (pronounced Tea-shock), of the post-civil-war generation...