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...FEAST (308 pp.)-Margaret Kennedy-Rinehart...
...that will cause admirers of Britain's Margaret Kennedy to grope for their shoes and steal away. In The Constant Nymph Author Kennedy showed that it was quite possible to write a bestseller that, though of no great breadth, was intelligent, sensitive to life and very likable. The Feast catches her with her literary standards down...
...life of Jesus: "The wine [Jesus] gave [his disciples] was from the Kiddush cup -the chalice. The bread he gave them to eat were these matzos, flour and water. Also on the Seder table is a shankbone, roasted .... In Jesus' time they ate the lamb together. That feast of the Passover was the Last Supper . . . 'Shema Israel adonoi elohenu adonoi echod-Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' Those were words that Jesus knew and recited constantly...
Then Bevan sat down to an Ebbw Vale feast: two fried eggs...
Unlike Christmas cards, which everyone knows were instigated by a Swiss job printer in 1856 to tide him over the slack season, Valentine's day cards can be traced back to historical origins. Specifically, they come from the ancient Roman Feast of the Lupercalia where youth men and women put cards with their names on them into a large box, and couples were paired by chance drawings. The pairings lasted all year, which clearly shows that the Romans knew how to make more of a good thing than...