Word: halloweening
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...keeping with the Halloween theme, the party in Adams A-17 revolved around a "hell" motif while the party in room A-41 was dubbed "heaven...
...Friday night, we marked a holiday that almost always manages to pass without comment. Every kid loves Halloween, but enthusiasm for the holiday among the young is no excuse for dismissing it as "childish" rather than examining it seriously. Halloween is seen as a fact of life, an amusing bench-mark in the celebratory vacancy that stretches from Columbus Day to Veterans Day. But history has some explaining to do when it comes to Halloween; its prominent place in the American calendar requires some justification. Indeed, it's a strange bird...
...Halloween's peculiarity derives from its unique heritage. The holiday comes down to us from the remote past and should be understood as "twice-appropriated." The inhabitants of pre-Christian Britain and Ireland celebrated a festival on Oct. 31 in honor of Sambain, the god of the dead. This celebration also coincided with the beginning of the New Year (Nov. 1) in both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon observance. The festival was thought to represent a time of unparalleled interaction between the worlds of man and spirit; celebrants lit bonfires to ward off evil spirits and diviners claimed that...
This is a castle built early in this century now used for a few weeks every year as a Halloween attraction. The staff, who will hide in corners and jump out at you, are all volunteers, according to (hiding, jumping volunteer) Al Fairbrother...
Indonesia went begging to the International Monetary Fund and walked away with a $20-billion Halloween treat today, as Wall Street looked to relegate Market Massacre '97 to nightmare status...