Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson and the members of his Cabinet, who have dedicated themselves to providing a better existence for all. The job that they have to do is hard enough without being subjected to the ridicule of these protesting mobs [Oct. 27]. Many must not have heard the American Indian prayer: "Great Spirit, Grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins...
...Prayer is manifest in Ward 4, especially on the Irish blocks, where it is framed and hung on the wall. "Visit this habitation, we beseech thee O Lord, and protect us from the snares of our enemy." The homes with prayers in the alcove are likely to contain suspicious inhabitants who quickly close the door with, "I'm not interested," or "I've read all about the war," or "My husband's out now, but when he gets back he'll tell me how to vote...
Second Avenue Bikeway. Nowhere was Buckley's lack of realism as a politician better demonstrated than in his madcap race for mayor. It was never exactly clear why he was doing it. He knew he didn't have a prayer of winning. When a reporter asked him what he would do if elected, he quipped, "I'd demand a recount." One of his aims was to spoil John Lindsay's chances: to Buckley, nothing is more reprehensible than a liberal Republican, because he has diluted conservative doctrine. His politics largely formed by the neat formulations...
...joint prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica, Paul expressed sorrow that "we cannot have that complete communion among ourselves which would be a sign to the world." Athenagoras agreed that they should "exhaust all means to accomplish the union of the divided church of Christ...
...preparing a televised series of documentaries on Luther and his ideas, and this week there will be a major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...