Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas is a good holiday. For the religious there is the renewed hope of redemption. For the others, the streets are lit up; children look forward to Santa Claus; the Salvation Army collects enough to fill soup bowls for another year; cynics have a special occasion on which they can be doubly cynical...
...American holiday offers the happy option of putting Christ into Christmas or taking him out. What makes it this way is that Christmas is an established religious holiday in a country without an established religion, which seems a pretty good compromise between the forces of light and the forces of darkness...
...Virginia, Christmas is a good holiday...
...extra cars will be added to the regular holiday runs of the New Haven Railroad even in the event of a strike or worse weather conditions. A representative admitted "the situation is terrible" and could become a "holocaust" if traffic is diverted from the airlines to the N.Y.N.H. & H. R.R. He claimed costs and equipment do not allow an increase in cars even if desperately needed...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty, although in moviemaking terms it is sometimes tatty Tati...