Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcoming brass, then stepped to waiting microphones. "We are honored to have the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances," he said. "We are profoundly grateful to our Commander in Chief and to our nation for this day." Then, his voice quavering with emotion, he added: "God bless America...
...remembers the growing sense of resignation, while marching down streets, block after block in the pouring rain of New York City calling to the curious officeworkers "Join us, join us, it's your fight too;" and one remembers the sense of pride when one of the onlookers says "God bless you, I will." One remembers people sharing food and belongings, as well as beliefs, so that one elderly woman participating in a protest for the first time last month could say, "I am proud to be an American for the first time in years...
Ritter's contribution is one of a very few lively and enlightening pieces in The Vonnegut Statement. But good grief! A term paper on Vonnegut? Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rose-water and Slaughterhouse-Five? Vonnegut, that enemy of pretension who writes about the cosmos and fate as if God were a tricky garage mechanic? Since the late '60s, following the republication of some of the early novels, students have indeed been assigned Vonnegut term papers...
...show. One week later we landed at Fiurnicino Airport again. We were told the paintings would be shipped back to Memphis on the next flight. Our flight was delayed for seven hours because the stewardesses had gone on strike, and we finally made it to New York singing God Bless America. One month later my paintings were returned...
...began telling his congregations: "Don't be a hypocrite about money. Say, 'I like money. Money is not sinful in its right place. I bless the idea of money in my mind.' " So many people liked this approach that by 1966 Ike was able to buy a $600,000, block-sized movie theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights. The theater became the headquarters for his new United Church and Science of Living Institute. Now Ike's ads pointedly trumpet that his church "is NOT located in Harlem...