Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autobiographical lather (Never Marry a Dancer), takes a breather when Albert throws all his theatrical technique into September Song a la Walter Huston. Then it sidles off into a calypso tempo (Man, Man Is for the Woman Made), goes serious again when Margo dramatizes a mother's prayer (from Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers), winds up in a welter of straw-hatted vaudeville routines and a big burst of applause...
...people of Guatemala must rise as one man against this enemy. Our struggle against Communism must be ... a crusade of prayer and sacrifice, as well as intensive spreading of the social doctrine of the church and a total rejection of Communist propaganda-for the love of God and Guatemala...
...Lenten days that began March 3 and will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness...
Students and faculty alike were at first afraid that Pusey might attempt to reestablish compulsory chapel or assembly similar to that which to conducted at Lawrence. But he has made clear that he is not interested in compulsion or revivalism in the prayer-meeting sense. But he is intensely interested in providing facilities for religious study and participation for those who want them...
Perhaps the most amusing controversy has been the "piety controversy" at the Divinity School Student Association, J. Frank Schulman 3Dv. asked for more religious interest among the students, proposing that the association open meetings with prayer...