Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers to take any action that might drastically tip the scales of Government. The most they would do is take a head count on impeachment in both houses and submit their findings to the President. "I don't know what to do," said a top congressional leader. "I pray a lot." He meant...
Love in these Doris Lessing stories is a disease, often contagious, occasionally fatal. Only the very young confuse it with pleasure. A mild attack of love can drive Lessing women to pray: "O God, make me old soon." It is almost as if love were Mrs. Lessing's version of hubris-a case of overreach for which those who would be like gods must be punished. And, in fact, whether these 17 reprinted tales (first collected in 1957) take place in Mrs. Lessing's own southern Africa or London or Paris, the settings are harsh and foreboding enough...
...pray every night for death to come...
...turned a bespoke book on, of all things, the World Bank (The Road to Huddersfield) into one of the more memorable popular essays on economics. Yet, as Jan Morris admits in her first book, Conundrum, an autobiography about the switch from "James to Jan," James Morris regularly used to pray "Please, God, make me a girl...
...first talkie, The Jazz Singer, would have featured Van Morrison. He is one of the least predictable, most innovative singers of rock--as inimitable in his own way as Dylan. How he wound up in Harvard Square Theater is a mystery. But he will be there tonight. Pray that he sings "Tupelo Honey." Thursday, March 14 at the Harvard Square Theater...