Word: faith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implication in his back-to-work announcement was that he carried a kind of renewed mandate. To be sure, the people of Massachusetts, from Pittsfield to Boston, had responded to Kennedy's testing of their faith with a sort of spontaneous plebiscite, an outpouring of letters and telegrams affirming their confidence. But, said the Boston Globe: "It is a bit like an umpire turning about in Fenway Park to ask the audience whether Carl Yastrzemski is safe at the plate...
...impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...
...Ohio, the Rev. Herman J. Weber prayed at St. Paul's United Church of Christ: "Oh thou great architect of the universe, it is only because thy universe is an embodiment of order and harmony upon which we can rely, that we are able to explore with sincere faith the vast imponderables of space and the moon's hidden mystery...
...that they issued an edict prohibiting any rock at Wein's Newport Folk Festival last weekend. As it happens, no rock groups had been scheduled to appear, but Wein called off a pre-festival program that was to have been built around another hot new British combo, Blind Faith. "Rock is out," he said...
Unshakeable was his faith in music. Unshake-able was his faith in youth. His students and singers, Woody wrote, "have strengthened my faith and given me my best moments." Reciprocally, we must add, woody gave untold thousands of us some of our best moments...