Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mankind's Prayer. To this Buck Rogers apocalypse, Composer Blomdahl fitted an atonal score marked by vocal passages of labyrinthine difficulty and orchestration of such transparent delicacy that it sometimes seemed like chamber music. Frequently the chorus was used unaccompanied as a tautly dramatic background to the soloists' soaring vocal lines, and in some sequences Blomdahl abandoned the orchestra altogether in favor of taped electronic effects. One scene unfolds against a Jabberwockian mixture that includes the speaking voices of Eisenhower. Khrushchev, Hitler, Mussolini and the defendants at the Nürnberg trials...
...believe that God will sometimes alter what would otherwise be the natural course of events to answer a prayer...
Radcliffe girls, according to the poll, gave far greater credence to the value of prayer. While 41 per cent of Radcliffe students believing in God perform daily devotions, only 23 per cent of Harvard believers do so. Correspondingly, only 18 per cent of these Radcliffe girls never pray, while 33 per cent of Harvard men who believe in some "divine presence" never pray...
...Radcliffe girls did not play down the importance of everyday political questions, especially conworship and prayer and by a firmer cerning feminine equality. The spirit of Carrie Nation showed through in one girl's answer to the question, "Would you have any objections to the election as President of the United States of a Roman Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, an atheist or agnostic." She checked her objection to "an atheist" with this remark: "if he made a public point about it. Otherwise it's his or her own business...
...prayer, offered by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will be followed by addresses by three students, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, Upton B. Brady '59, and H.O.J. Brown 3D. The awarding of degrees will come next on the program, and the singing of the Commencement Hymn and a benediction will conclude the morning segment...