Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember being a one-girl exhibition in a Hum 8 section of 25: the sectionman would spend 40 out of 50 minutes making wisecracks about football, and then he would catch himself mid-sentence and bow like Sir Galahad before me inquiring, "And Madamoiselle, how goes the fashion world, pray?" This was the same attitude that insisted on parietals through 1969, that kicked us out of Yard dorms at 7p.m., and politely sent the cops after the delinquent few of us who failed to check...
...stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...experienced coach would declare this year's Pudding show the product of a "building season" and pray for some more talent next year. But this season's creators and producers of Bayou were cracking thier knuckles with more than first-night jitters in the back row last night, and they may have to for a while to come. With a little work, director-choreographer Voigt Kempson can probably add some stage business, get the Mounties and Maidens to stop moving their lips to count out their steps and maybe even get them to dance with a little class. Until...
Aside from lovers and husbands, the only visitor to the house is the minister who comes to pray at Agnes's deathbed. Bergman admires the minister's recognition of the need for moral faith, and his sincerity and fervor; but his unfolding of a stern Calvinist credo becomes pathetic, particularly as he begins to cry, and tells the sisters that Agnes's faith was stronger than his own. When he leaves with his androgynous layers-out, we are made sharply aware that, for all its period trappings, this is a story about Western man caught in a post-Christian world...
...great home-run hitter. I hit only ten home runs in the 1971 season. Last year I suddenly ended up hitting 19 because I chanted my prayers every morning and night and before every game." Why did his batting average drop from .309 to .289? "I didn't pray hard enough...