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...Literatures Professor Catherine McKenna said the parades and celebrations associated with St. Patrick’s Day now do not reflect the original religious significance of the holiday. In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day was observed as a normal saint’s day with a feast and religious ceremonies until the 1960s. “I was talking to one of my students the other day, and she said, ‘You know, knowing what I know now about Patrick, I think that he wouldn’t approve,’” McKenna...
Where this year's Biennial goes out on a limb is in the decision to devote a separate venue to shared social experiences defined as artworks. These include a 24-hour dance marathon, a Gypsy-themed feast and a slumber party. Momin and Huldisch say this kind of evanescent "event art" is another manifestation of the recoil from the market, and that it's so widespread across the U.S. that no survey show can ignore it. To accommodate this, for its first three weeks, the Biennial is spilling over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile...
Most Holy Father, I write to thank you for allowing the Irish bishops to move the feast of St. Patrick to March 15. March 17, as you know, falls on Holy Monday this year. Obviously, it would be a tragedy if the most cherished holiday of the Irish—first among all the nations of Christendom—were cancelled. St. Patrick did the Church a great service by bringing the Irish—the stalwart Irish, the high-minded Irish, the brave, the creative, the swarthy and attractive and fine-smelling Irish—into the fold...
...Palestinians, and by an intelligence apparatus that had cracked apart dozens of terrorist cells in the West Bank. But that illusion was demolished when a Palestinian youth, identified by police as Ala al-Din Abu Dhaim, fired more than 500 bullets at the young students gathered for a celebratory feast...
...from Jbel Mukabar village in East Jerusalem, arrived at the seminary carrying a large box. Police told TIME that the terrorist walked into the unguarded seminary, up two flights of stairs to the library, where hundreds of male students, many of them teenagers, were having a celebratory feast. The intruder then pulled his weapon out of the box and began spraying the room with bullets. Eyewitnesses told police that students tried hiding under tables and behind bookshelves. But as the students began to scatter, he hunted them down, killing each victim, one by one, with shots to the head...