Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrapped in his long-fringed, white prayer shawl, and dressed in a white linen robe, Rabbi Finkelstein stood on the dais; looking to the East, with his back to the congregation, he faced the Ark of the Covenant. On the lectern before him lay the great scrolls of the Torah, the book of the law of Moses. Rabbi Finkelstein's clenched right hand beat upon his breast in the traditional gesture of sorrow. Clear and strong, in the twang and guttural of the Hebrew chant, his voice rose...
...Elohenu velohe abotenu - Our God and, God of our fathers, let our prayer come before thee; hide not thyself from our supplication, for we are not arrogant and stiff-necked, that we should say before thee, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, we are righteous and have not sinned; but verily, we have sinned...
Evangelist Billy Graham, who leads revival meetings on radio and television, has found a new medium: the movies. At a prayer-meeting premiere (pronounced "premeer") in Hollywood Bowl this week, he presented a movie entitled Mr. Texas. Evangelist Graham calls it "the first Christian Western...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
Said one veteran operagoer: "I've heard Otello several dozen times, but Nelli is the first Desdemona I can recall who sang the Ave Maria as if it were a prayer and not an aria...