Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if caudal anesthesia is actually the answer to an obstetrician's prayer, the recent rash of publicity may prove harmful. Prospective mothers may demand it before doctors learn the technique...
Pinza, who has been singing at the Met for 16 years, is the answer to an impresario's prayer. He can sing any of 55 operatic roles at a few hours' notice. He has no objection to playing minor roles, usually succeeds in making them seem major. No scene-stealer, he can be counted on to help inexperienced members of the cast. A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom. That voice, at the Metropolitan and in concert tours, grosses between...
...generation that grew up to be the fathers of this graduating class, mystic faith reached a crazy high during the war years, when they were still young. Boys of twenty were found dead in France with prayer books in their pockets. But those who came back left the prayer books behind them and had nothing to read to the children they hardly knew. It was not easy to teach religion and idealism from memory, so what their sons learned was something less than the absolute beliefs that Victorian generations had never thought to question...
Invocation, and The Lord's Prayer...
...Prayer...