Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot. As she lies in bed, half-crazed, alone, and dying, Felicité's last earthly vision is of a huge parrot hovering over her head. Flaubert keeps cool about all this, but his evocative prose keens a universal dirge...
...returned to his old preoccupation with religious matters. He used much of his ill-won gains to erect temples in the valleys of Chambal and Betwa, to the goddess Kali and to Siva, the lord of destruction. He began appearing in the saffron robe of a priest, usually carrying prayer beads. But in one respect he remained relentless: he had vowed to kill every male member of the hated Brahman priest's family, and kill them he did, one by one, even though they tried to escape by going 650 miles away to Bombay...
Into Tin Pan Alley's Broadway capitol, the Brill Building, there passes each day a hustling parade of tunesmiths and music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court...
After at 9:30 a.m. procession into the Tercentenary Theatre from Holworthy Hall, the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, acting chairman of the Board of Preachers, will offer the prayer...
...Class Day program today will begin with a prayer by the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Acting Chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers. Following the prayer, Joseph O. Mitchell will deliver the Class Oration, and David P. Chandler will read the Class Poem. The traditionally humorous Ivy Oration, co-authored this year by John G. Benedict and David Schwarz, will follow...