Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan...
...Thornberry reconsidered, phoned Johnson back. "Lyndon, said "I was wrong. You ought to take the vice-presidency." Three years later he was at Johnson's side in Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was pronounced dead. The new President turned to Thornberry, declared gravely: "This is a time for prayer if there ever was one, Homer...
...Engel v. Vitale (1962) ruled unconstitutional the daily recitation of prescribed prayer in public schools...
...ultimatum. Speaking for Pope Paul, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Religious ruled that if the progressives want to continue as an approved religious order, they must return to wearing "a recognizable habit." Rome also ordered them to restore the traditional discipline of religious life, including the compulsory daily prayer services that the reforming sisters considered in conflict with their work outside the convent...
Reaching. The networks kept laboring to find fresh perspectives-sometimes finding them and at other times simply reaching too far. NBC, via satellite hookup, carried a prayer of hope (in shaky English) from Pope Paul, and later interviewed Sirhan Sirhan's father in Jordan. All three networks, using a pool helicopter, followed the Kennedy cortege from Good Samaritan Hospital down the freeways to Los Angeles International Airport...