Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a big Jinnah public meeting in Lahore, a mullah (priest) lashed out, during his preliminary prayer in the Urdu language, at women who violate purdah (seclusion). Fatima, sitting a few feet from the mullah, with her face, as always, unveiled, did not take in the criticism; neither she nor her brother (who was sitting on a golden throne high above the crowd) speaks Urdu, the language of Jinnah's western domain...
...Devotional Bible reading and prayer in public schools is all right with the Century...
...singers, many of them housewives, can read music. They sing with none of the trickiness and polish of professional Negro groups like the Hall Johnson Choir. Sure-fire "lifter" at St. Paul is Hines's setting of the Lord's Prayer. The choir chants the first line in unison, adding more harmony with each new line. The screaming climax leaves the church shuddering. Says Hines: "We don't sing to entertain. We sing to lift...
...Notebooks of Henry James offered rich detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...
...front lines. . . . We learned about night patrols and fear, and a lot of us learned about prayer. I think that was when I decided on my vocation to the Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord' as the shells screamed overhead and exploded. ... I realized my faith wasn't so strong, neither was my confidence nor my love. So I prayed to Our Lady to spare me, and promised her to join the Cistercians to learn to love...