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CONCERTS
Jimmy Buffet with special gues
Todd Snider will perform at 7:3(
p.m. Friday at the North Chariestor
Coliseum. The show is sold out
Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker:
will play Friday at the Blockbustei
Pavilion in Charlotte, N.C.
LECTURES
Celebrated American writers Jamef
Dickey, Joseph Heller, William Man
Chester and William Styron ari
among a select group of writers wh<
will bp at USC today through Fri
day to discuss World War II anc
their writings. The highlights of th<
program will be two public read
ings, which will be at 7:30 p.m. ii
the law school auditorium and a
7:30 p.m. Thursday in Belk Audi
torium.
MUSEUMS
USC master of fine arts candidal
Stephen Crall's exhibit "How
Earned a Master's Degree" is on dis
play at McKissick Museum.
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"Josiah Wedgwood: Experimental
t Potter" will run through Sunday at
) McKissick Museum. The exhibit in1
eludes more than 70 pieces of Wedgwood
pottery and chronicles how he
influenced ceramics as decorative
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"A Journey to Hindoostan: Romantic
Views of India, 1780-1860" is on display
at the Columbia Museum of
3 Art. The exhibit will run through
- May 21.
3 "Triennial 95," an exhibit of contemporary
South Carolina art, will
1 be on display at the S.C. State Mus
seum through May 31.
i THEATER
t "The Pigs of Love" will open at 11:15
p.m. Friday at Trustus Theatre.
Tickets are $5.
MISCELLANEOUS
s USC's annual art auction will be at
I 8 p.m. today in the Capstone Campus
Room. Preview parties will be i
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. 1
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GENA WALUNG Staff Writer
The word for this celebration is Easter, which
some scholars believe to have come from a pagan goddess
of spring or maybe from the German word esotarun
for dawn. Despite where the name originated,
it has many different meanings now and is celebrated
in many different ways.
The Easter season actually begins on Ash Wednesday,
which is the beginning of Lent. During these 40
days before Easter, Christians may fast or give up
something they really like, such as candy or meat, in
remembrance of the 40 days Jesus fasted in the wilderness.
Students said they recall Easter as a time for early
church morning services and Easter egg hunts, but
most did not know why they practiced many of the
traditions they remembered and still obseive. For example,
some students did not know that the day most
of them go to church, Sunday, is in reverence of the
day that Jesus was resurrected.
Those colorful Easter eggs and the Easter bunny
are the only familiar symbols unrelated to the East
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From Staff Reports
Celebrated American writers James Dickey, Joseph
Heller, William Manchester and William Styron are
among a select group of writers who will be at the USC
April 12 -14 to discuss World War II and their writI
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The Last Good War A World War
II Writers Symposium," will com
memorate the 50th anniversary of the
end of World War II by exploring how
the era was depicted through literature.
Other participating authors in- JL
elude William Price Fox, Paul Fussell,
Mary Lee Settle, Mickey Spillane and
Albert Wertheim.
To have so many writers of this WM
calibre gathered in one place discussing
a topic so timely and of such signifi- f '
cance in the 20th century is rare in- ??
deed," said Price Fox, USC English HELLER
professor and organizer of the event.
"Moreover, this is the only conference
in the country dedicated to the depiction of World War
II through American literature."
The public is invited and encouraged to attend all
conference events, which will address a range of general
interest topics about World War II. Accompanying
the conference will be a special World War II book
and Movietonews exhibit in USC's Thomas Cooper library,
which will be open to visitors who want to explore
the war era further.
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related to Easter most students are unaware of. For
example, Mardi Gras is a massive celebration that
precedes the beginning observance of Lent. Pretzels
were originally a Lenten food. Their twisted shape
suggested arms crossed in prayer. Mot cross buns
were originally created to be served on Good Friday
with the cross on the top as a symbols of the cross on
which Jesus died, according to Christian myth.
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The highlight of the symposium will be two public
readings, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
April 12 and Thursday, April 13. Heller, Manchester
and Settle will read from their works Wednesday
evening in the USC Law School auditorium. Dickey,
Styron and Fussell will read from their works Thursday
evening in Belk auditorium, located in the William
H. Close Building. A question-and-answer
session will follow the readings.
The public is encouraged to arrive early,
as seating is expected to fill quickly
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the writers titled "America, Then and
p"" ^ Now" will take place from 10-11 a.m.
and 11 am. - noon Thursday. At 2 p.m.
Thursday, there will be a panel discussion
titled "Revisionist History and
World War II" followed by a free re
ception ana dook signing oy tne participating
authors. All morning and
afternoon activities will take place in
USC's Longstreet Theatre.
After a free continental breakfast at 9 a.m. Friday
in the Longstreet Theatre lobby, the symposium will
conclude with a panel discussion at 9:30 a.m. titled
"The War and My Writing." All the discussions will be
moderated by USC English professor Price Fox.
Most of the participating writers are noted for a
major work that deals with one or more specific aspect
of World War II and its era.
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Students had a number of family customs in addition
to attending church, being with family, coloring
eggs, hiding them and then looking for them. Other
students play the game "The Little Red Fox" where
the person who was "the fox" tried to guess "the chicken's,"
color. If successful, "the fox" chases you all over
the yard until you get back to base.
Despite all of the unrelated customs, like the Easter
Bunny, the eggs and candy, the religious aspects
of the holiday are still at the center of this celebration
for some. For others, it is a chance to miss school.
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novel about a Pol- AvjM
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survival and
her relationship
with a young New
York jew, and the
novella "The Long
March," which is
included in Charles
Fenton's "The Best
Short Stories of SPILLANE
World WarD."
USC English professor and poet-in-residence James
Dickey is the author of the World War II novel "To the
White Sea." Other World War H era books by participating
authors include Manchester's "Glory and the
Dream," Fussell's "Wartime: Understanding and Behavior
in the Second World War," Settle's "All the Brave
Promises," Spillane's "I, the Jury" and Wertheim's coedited
book, "Essays on Contemporary British Drama."
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