Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andre Gide in his diary at 22. "My mind is becoming voluptuously impious and pagan. I must stress that tendency." If he felt like a pagan, he still acted like a Protestant; he carried a pocket Bible everywhere with him. But he was always seesawing between the assurances of prayer and the doubts of spiritual confusion. Twenty-one years later, he confided to his journal: "Catholicism is inadmissible. Protestantism is intolerable. And I feel profoundly Christian. . . . From day to day I put off and carry a little farther into the future my prayer: may the time come when my soul...
...some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like the story of how the tinker...
When they died, common Muscovites were simply wrapped in a pall and carried yo the burial ground, behind an icon; in their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
...wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, so close is Barbara's window that. . . she can see him clear his throat...
...digressions describe the big depression, the distastrous dust storms of the middle '303, the building of Norris Dam, etc. The most striking digression traces the U.S. campaign in Europe, from the invasion of Normandy to the German surrender, while the President's voice quietly speaks the long prayer he composed for the invasion...