Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra played through the work. It opened somberly, a death march with sighing strings, touched here and there with sunset colors. As a climax to the symphony's first section, winds played a noble tune over massed strings that sounded as if they had just come from prayer meeting. With the second part, the composition went into dance rhythms that turned misterioso with a ululating vibraphone, then into a drunken Kerry dance with skirling reeds, then into a ragtime climax followed by a pastoral section that sounded as if it should be called Alleghennian Autumn. The end, surprisingly...
...merely be moving from one 'branch' of universal religion to another. But ... if the prospective convert is confronted with a statement that leaves it an open question whether or not God is a person, whether or not there is such a fact as Revelation, whether or not prayer is answered, and with an idea of ceremonial practice completely divorced from any idea of 'divine commandment' . . . then he might think twice before burning his inherited bridges to salvation behind...
...future husband while she was on the faculty. In spite of the high place to which marriage took her, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has remained devoted to Clarke. "I never hear a deaf child," she once wrote, "that my heart does not go out to it. I breathe a prayer that fortune may favor it by bringing it to a school where it may be taught as the children at Clarke School are taught...
...Security Council was the youngest man at the table. Placing his tan leather briefcase beside his chair, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned forward and opened the meeting in a grave, clear voice: "Gentlemen, as we all know, it is the custom of the Cabinet to open with a silent prayer. While this has not been the practice of the Security Council, may I propose a moment of silent prayer of thanksgiving for the marvelous record of recovery the President has made up to this hour...
...oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity and the outward-giving hands of charity. Asked why he did not do the obvious and portray the four chaplains, arms linked, on the Dorchester's sloping decks, Nivola replied: I think TV or the movies can tell stones better. I wanted...