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...Ursi triumphantly elevated the reliquary encasing the vial. An attendant, seeing the frothy liquid, happily waved his handkerchief at the congregation (it is considered a good omen if the blood bubbles or froths). A beaming priest applauded. The cathedral bells were rung. The congregation, with restrained excitement, continued to pray in thanksgiving...
...bishop miscalculated. A group of conservative laymen called Deus Dux ("God is our leader") sent a letter of complaint to Rome and held a "pray-in" in front of Bishop Tracy's apartment. Even worse for the good-conscience cause, Tracy's announcement touched off an ecclesiastical storm in the hierarchy...
Facing that ordeal, some joke and some jeer, some cringe and some cry, some drink and some pray. No man is born brave, but it is a brave sight to see a man acquire courage, and Journey's End shows us that too. This is a spare, sharp, impeccable revival, never quaint, never condescending, never squandering any surplus energy on belaboring the obvious by bad-mouthing war. The entire cast, and especially Peter Egan's taut, tart, nerve-shelled Captain Stanhope, deserves medals at the curtain...
Last year at this time. Harvard football coach Joe Restic had a complicated offense imported from the Canadian pros and a lot of confused players left over from the days of the Yovicin sweep-right sweep-left-and-pray-for-the, defense system. Consequently, Harvard roared out to lose its opener to Holy Cross, a team that had not won a game in almost three years...
...truck driver who is blind in his right eye, says that "Artie may be 21 but he is still a boy." Hunched over a glass of Andeker beer in a dim South Side tavern last week, he grieved: "Oh, if only Artie'd shot me instead. I never pray, but last night I prayed and I prayed very hard." Bremer, a distraught, broken man who wore his silver-white hair in a ponytail until his wife cut it the day after the shooting, told TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Burton Pines that he also did something else...