Word: easterlies
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...five wounds-And a piercing cold besets me. And for Easter...
...circulation of just under 60,000, the Reporter has given its rivals little room for complacency. Since the strike began, both have lost subscribers. The Oregonian is down 28,600 to 213,614, the Journal a whopping 57,300 to 131,364. Both have resorted to giving away stuffed Easter bunnies and toy elephants to lure their readers back...
...This review, written fifty-seven years after the performance, is in part to ask whether a university which in 1906 could magnificently produce the Agamemnon in Greek in the Stadium cannot now in the Loeb Theatre, annually at Easter, stage performances in English of Goethe's Faust...
...tolerance, Farsang (pronounced for-shong), is making a comeback-not so much as a pre-Lenten spree as a chance to escape the austerity of everyday life under Communism. Explained one blonde merrymaker: "We celebrate from the morning after New Year's right through Lent, and on to Easter...
...lynchings. They have a demoniacal urge to grow and an equally demoniacal urge to battle an opposing crowd. Rummaging through history, Canetti cites some gory examples of crowd behavior to support his thesis. Crowds that form for the most exalted reasons can become the most murderous. Typical was an Easter service in Jerusalem in 1834. The faithful flocked to the church by the thousands to see the descent of the Holy Fire. When the "miraculous" fire appeared, people were in a frenzy to get to it. In the turmoil, two crowds squared off and started senselessly slaughtering each other until...