Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Aylward lead a prayer and Miss Raudenbush read a section of Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, beginning with the lines: "Have no doubt it is fear in the land. For what can men do when so many are forced to become lawless...
Undulating across the stage, eight shapely young ballerinas mimicked the sensuous rhythms of a belly dance. Portraying Bedouin tribesmen, a chorus of 150 men sang a lusty hymn to Allah. At sunrise, the wailing voice of the muezzin filled the concert hall, summoning the faithful to prayer. "O lonely night, last forever," crooned a tenor, looking across the moonlit sands. "You've made me learn to live and love...
...twilight in every city, swaggering under awnings and before the fluorescent lights of cafeteria windows. They like to bill themselves as "studs," but they are guys who swing from both sides of the bed. Around them swirls another kind of urban flotsam: maimed, embittered victims with out a prayer of sexual gratification or a hope of companionship. From these unpromising fragments, James Leo Herlihy wrote a lyric blues ballad disguised as a novel. The film adaptation of Midnight Cowboy may grant that ballad too much orchestration, but it preserves its essential compassion and humor...
...Mudd, unjustly imprisoned on an American Devil's Island, is recruited to stop a Yellow Fever epidemic. He must rally the panic-stricken soldiers, who are shown to us initially in rapid montage of richly lit terrified faces (a characteristic Ford device seen in Four Men and a Prayer, The Fugitive, The Sun Shines Bright and other films, and an example of Eisensteinian Classicism). Next he airs out the sick ward as a windstorm accompanied by lightning flashes begins (expressionism). He takes sick himself and tries to sleep. The master shot of his bedroom stresses angles directed toward the background...
...Father and as I am loved by my Father.' " Four years later, during the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Léger kept thinking about how the church could testify to the presence of God in a world "divided between haves and have-nots." After three weeks of prayer, he asked for, and was given, Pope Paul's reluctant permission to go to Africa...