Word: prayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resurrection, a large and rowdy panorama of an English country graveyard at. the last trump (TIME, May 8). Last week, oldtimers were flooding the London press with protests. Wrote a Daily Telegraph reader: "If the Chantrey trustees, impervious to public opinion, choose to exhibit these abnormal pictures, may I pray their hanging committee may hang beside them...
...Housebuilder Levitt is quoted as saying: "In Levittown 99% of the people pray for us." After reading the article and finding no mention of a church or synagogue among the 40,000 residents of this youthful community, I am moved to ask: Where do they pray...
...Pray Without Ceasing." Smart was driven to distraction by overwork and financial worries as early as his Cambridge days, and tried to earn money from his writing. In one play, noted a contemporary, "He acts five Parts himself, & is only sorry, he can't do all the rest, he has also advertised a Collection of Odes; & [as] for his Vanity & Faculty of Lyeing, they are come to their full Maturity, all this . . . must come to a Jayl, or Bedlam...
...profits he made from concoctions such as "Dr. Hooper's Female Pills." Smart became his hack, churning out for him a flow of trite but salable verse and prose. Then Smart's high-strung system collapsed. He took to interpreting literally Christ's "injunction to pray without ceasing"-and pray Smart did, whenever he was moved to do so, whether in public places or in the small hours of the morning, summoning those near him to do likewise...
...efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote. He was put there by his onetime friend Dr. Samuel Johnson, who once declared: "I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion...