Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't tell jokes - at least not intentionally. His malapropisms ("I would like to prevent a new singer"), his carny-barker pleas for applause ("Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer!"), and his pen chant for forgetting names (Singer Polly Bergen is invariably introduced as Bar bara Britton) are part of TV lore. His wincesome looks and quirky mannerisms-such as hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy...
...Yastrzemski. What does one say? He is apart. He came to bat after Adair, and one took pleasure, even in his patient preparation. In the on-deck circle, two bats swirling around the shoulders, above the head in an ashwood ceremony of prayer and promise. Meticulous attention to every detail...
...supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead all we got was Vacuum II." The cell conducts its own baptisms-the whole contingent turning out to sing hymns over the baby-and meets every other Tuesday night in one of its members' homes for prayer and religious discussion...
...wrath of their bishops for taking part in illegal services.* Nonetheless, many of these clerics regard the services at underground churches as far more meaningful than Catholicism's official liturgy. Says one nun who belongs to an underground cell in California: "When one member looked up from prayer one evening and said, 'We're all friends,' I knew we had something new and very rich in community here...
...clothe his paste-paper gallery, Scarfe borrowed from London's elegantly In Savita shop, owned by Mrs. Meher Vakeel, who lent her own gold-and-silver-threaded theater coat for John's raiment. Ringo wears silk tweed, with jute-thread-embroidered collar and wooden prayer beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian...