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Attendance at next week's rally will probably be greater than that at a rally held last month, Wood said, because the Easter vacation will allow more students to participate...
...stop the main body of the historic bill from moving ahead. The House Judiciary Committee completed hearings on it last week; the Senate Judiciary Committee is under instructions to report the bill out by this week; both chambers hope to have the proposed law ready for floor action before Easter...
...trade while he digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips), both doomed to die in genteel poverty. The teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...droves, as students to sketch everything from Renaissance Madonnas to abstract collages, as established painters to perfect. Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who haunted the Met as a young man, says: "The greatest thrill of my life is to walk from the Rembrandt rooms and find my Easter Monday hanging on the wall...
Writing in 1926, ten years after the Easter Rebellion, O'Casey can answer these questions, because he can see Ireland's causes in a harsh historical glare. His characters uselessly throw away their lives in a meaningless fight, meaningless because of their empty motivation. Afraid to admit its own fear and surrender at the barricades, the Irish Citizen Army faces overwhelming British forces, and falls...