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...exhibits sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association will provide a feast for the eyes, an Advocate poetry reading by Kenneth Koch spice for the ears--and various restaurants will cater to real appetites with special menus and rates designed for the Festival. One of the Square's major commerical events will be a large auction, the profits of which will go to the Festival fund. The idea for this auction reflects the sense of community already growing so rapidly among merchants, students and community, but every shop seems to be coming up with its own little brainstorm for the Festival...
Thus, with their own interpretations of the ancient rituals, a number of U.S. Jews marked the eight-day festival of Passover that ends this week. Most other Jews observed the feast in more traditional ways. But all told anew the old stories of Pharaoh's wrath and the Lord's good providence that took them out of Egypt, their house of bondage. Sometimes their Christian neighbors joined them, aware that their own celebration of Easter, just days away, was inextricably tied to the Jewish holiday...
...course Passover and Easter carry quite different spiritual meanings. Easter is a feast of resurrection; Passover a feast of survival. Easter denotes God's sacrifice for the redemption of all men; Passover God's special compact with one people. That compact often seems "exclusive," yet according to the Old Testament, God did charge his people with a message of love and justice for the world. Thus Passover also means a kind of redemption to Jews, a redemption anticipated in the climactic affirmation that ends the Seder celebration: "Next Year in Jerusalem!" For two millenniums that cry has been the Jews...
...Greek kōmos-a dance. And indeed, as the Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. Under Chaplin's direction, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper had a new career as a lace tablecloth. There have been more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring...
They could have no better guide than Raphael's lively, scholarly new history of Passover, A Feast of History (Simon & Schuster; $12.50). Drawing on a rich selection of illustrations, Raphael traces celebrations of the Seder back through the centuries, all the way to Abraham (rabbinic lore anachronistically had it that he celebrated a Seder with the three angels who visited him centuries before the Exodus...