Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court's school prayer decision "in no way relieves the American public school of its responsibility for developing the religious feeling and morality of its students, "Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, Emeritus, said Thursday night...
...Cure by Prayer. Texas-born Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Maxwell D. Taylor, was the sprightly, popular treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further...
Instead, Mary Happer entered High Oaks, which takes only "dedicated, mature, seasoned Christian Scientists." She was treated by a Christian Science practitioner, who relied on prayer to work a cure. At least twice Miss Butts drove up from Bethesda to visit her friend. Each time, apparently, she became more concerned over Mary Happer's condition. Two days before Miss Butts's final visit, she had bought a gun. When they returned to Mary Happer's room at High Oaks after a drive in the country, Dorothy Butts stayed for nearly an hour and then shot...
...many complex decisions have come on Mondays that reporters have occasionally been less than accurate. A notorious example was the 1962 school-prayer decision, when much of the press declared that God had been banished from the classroom and the Supreme Court was heaped with abuse it did not deserve. Now that decisions will be strung out during the week, reporters should have ample time to study and assess them more accurately...
Elsewhere in Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...