Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication of Madrid's first regular synagogue since 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, urged on by the Spanish Inquisition, ordered all Jews expelled...
...poetry in the issue, Thomas Weisbuch's Five Poems are the most competently constructed, although two, Prayer for Beasts and The Yo-Yo, are awkward and obvious. The other three are carefully designed, with an impressive easiness of rhythm. They are not particularly presumtuous, an attribute to which many may object, and they fulfill their purpose adequately, though without brilliance...
...full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once again history is relived in this production. We ask thee this so that the film, The Alamo, will...
...inspiration for Beatnik Gregory Corso's poem Bomb [Sept. 7] might well have been the oft-chanted Episcopal (Book of Common Prayer) Benedicite, omnia opera Domini...
...believe that God will sometimes alter what would otherwise be the natural course of events to answer a prayer...