Easter celebrations
Sir, — During this Easter week-end thousands of rampant sweet-toothers will chomp into great wads of marshmallow, chocolate and candy; thousands will gurgle great volumes of alcohol, and others will gorge themselves on roast dinners and indigestible condiments. A few God-fearing and selfrighteous people will put pennies in the church plate at midnight mass, no doubt unburdening their guilt. There will be constant newscasts of road death figures, the usual token gang violence and a few rapes. Nothing new; all quite repetitious No need for alarm, though, even if it may be our last Easter on Earth. We will continue to be greedy to the last, even though we could easily feed ourselves and all of Pakistan on our food-pro-ducing capacity and natural resources. But let us eat up anyway and bloat; a silent few may fast in remembrance of the “real” Easter. —- Yours, etc.,
ANDY THOMPSON. April 1, 1980. '
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