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...fling you around the room. . . ." Said Laura: "There must be another way out." "Of course," said Barry crossly, "you might try collecting stamps. . . ." So Laura began a half-hearted affair with Barry, who flung her around the room, but looked "as if [his] head were screwed on like an Easter rabbit's and [his] body full of gumdrops...
...talking till all hours of the night. About deep things. Like love and why you do what you do." One day Winnie was run over by a taxi. Gladys "wanted a minister to say something about [Winnie] at the funeral." But all the ministers said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said: Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sylvester Horace Rogers . . . GOD IS LOVE. Another inscription said: FEED MY SHEEP. The minister, an advanced thinker, said this meant that "people should...
Doubting Divine. The fourth God-seeker was the Reverend Job Tatum, who had risen from the wrong side of the tracks to the pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...
...home, the coal industry was not meeting the demand either. Some British industries (rayon, chemicals, pottery and toys) were booming. But their output was restricted by lack of coal. Last week 500 of Britain's industrial plants had only one week's fuel supply. By Easter the coal-burning British railroads would have to reduce traffic or else some industrial plants would have to close down altogether...
Lent was also the season in which the church prepared pagans for baptism at Easter. To onetime heathens, Lent (from the Anglo-Saxon word for spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...