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...striations. The naked surface gives the mansion more depth and a shadowy European flavor. Whoever comes back down Pennsylvania Avenue next January after taking the oath of office as President will be the first newly installed Chief Executive to see the pristine stone since Andrew Jackson's time. Pray that Old Hickory's spirit still resides thereabouts, because the new President will need all the help...
...support Reagan for a variety of emotional and non-intellectual reasons. Among them: feeling secure with a macho president; knowing their expected affluence will not be touched by a laisse-faire president; having a leader who does not demand more from them than that they prosper, multiply, and maybe pray...
What this parish and its 950 families needed was a parish hall. With a separate facility for bingo, dances, the women's club, the men's club and other functions, the church could get rid of its collapsible chairs and pray from the proper seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days...
First: Zounds! I well knoweth, kind sir, that all the world's a stage, but what, pray tell, are these two baseball players doing...
...example of success: an Indian born and raised in Trinidad, then a British colony, who had won a scholarship to Oxford and afterward, as an admirable writer, earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey was written more in anger than sorrow, and the formula that he had earlier used to criticize Argentina (The Return of Eva Perón) or his ancestral homeland (India: A Wounded Civilization) began to seem a trifle predictable: the author regrets to find...