Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...
...Cardinal was moved to his bed. The rites were administered. The Cardinal spoke his last words, a humble prayer. At 7:50 Cardinal Villeneuve, 63, died...
...Biffle got things started all right with the chaplain's prayer. Sixty holdover Senators were in their seats; 36 newly elected Senators waited to be sworn. The reading clerk read the rules, reminding the Chamber that it was the custom to swear in new members alphabetically, in groups of four...
Likes & Dislikes. Theological differences between minister and congregation are considered undesirable (76.3%), but not so undesirable as too few pastoral calls (86.3%). A majority of Methodists (56.9%) react unfavorably to a minister who does not accompany his calls with prayer. As to a recreation program for youth, the prudent pastor will mind his Ps & Qs; 54.2% of laymen approve "folk games" in the church basement, but for "social dancing," 70.1% of Methodists consider church property forbidden ground...
...probably all fellow communicants of the Episcopal Church, refer ex-Chaplain Clark to the Book of Common Prayer, a famous and most complete liturgy which [other] Protestants might do well to copy...