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...feast of a different kind is on view at Brandeis University's Spingold Theater, where the most famous of all vampires, Count Dracula, is busy sucking blood from victims willing and unwilling...
...Saints' Day, a Christian feast that commemorates the spiritual heroism of the early martyrs, has a double significance to the French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...
Even in the Soviet Union, Easter is one of the year's most joyous days. By Orthodoxy's ancient Julian calendar, this year's feast comes the day before May Day. The long cruel grip of a northern winter is broken, and this week 30 million Orthodox are fasting in anticipation of the holy day, painting gaily decorated eggs and baking rum-laced cakes to be blessed at Easter Eve services. Crowds, including thousands of atheists, will flock to watch the predawn procession of crosses and icons around Moscow's Yelokhovsky Cathedral, where Young Communists...
...fact, says the author, Hemingway is the only source for some of the most widely repeated anecdotes about Fitzgerald. Many of them are contained in A Moveable Feast (1964). That posthumous volume begins with Hemingway's cryptic statement that though the book could be read as fiction, "there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Too many readers have confused light and facts. For example, in Moveable Feast, Hemingway gives the impression that Fitzgerald's literary advice was worthless, although a ten-page memo...
Alexander's Feast Consort--Busch-Reisinger Museum Recital Series, at noon...