Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holiday, 4:10 and 7:40 p.m.; and His Girl Friday, 5:50 and 9:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday only...
...tried the Chanukah route for a while, but I always knew it was a made-up holiday, invented by anxious Jewish parents to mollify their Christmas-hungry offspring. "Look," they were saying, "you don't need any stockings hung by the chimney with care, or presents under the tree. We're gonna give you eight--yes, count'em, eight--different gifts, one for each day of our holiday." It didn't help, of course, that my parents were not big gift-givers. The only thing I remember getting for Chanukah was a picture book about the Feast of Lights...
...woman named Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the self-appointed apostle of American atheists. The way she handled Christmas was not to fight it, but to join it. Christmas, she announced in a brochure that appeared in our mailbox one day in early December, was not in fact a Christian holiday at all. Its origins lay in the ancient pagan celebration of the winter solstice. And for just a few dollars, you could buy some lovely winter solstice cards to send to all your friends and let them know just what it was they were really celebrating...
...looking to buy ski equipment as a holiday gift for someone, you're best bet is to try the Ski Market on Commonwealth Ave. Right now, Ski Market is ofering several ski-boot-binding-pole packages starting at $109. The savings on these packages range up to $150 and the equipment is name-brand. These packages are particularly good buys for the intermediate skier looking to step up from cheap or rental equipment. Ski Market also has some of the best bargains around on skis, boots and clothing...
Pupils at the all-black Holy Angels School on Chicago's South Side realized that handing out their usual holiday food baskets to the poor would not make a dent in local hardship; unemployment in the parish runs to 30%. So the kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just...