Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffhanging. Albert knows his Aristotle from his university days and has a great sense of the tradition of democratic legislatures, beginning with the Athenian lawmakers who met amid prayer, sacrifice and invective on the Pnyx, a hill near the Acropolis. He is too good a student of Capitol Hill, as well, to trust any kind of legislative majority by itself. He knows that Jefferson had more than 3-to-l majorities in his Ninth Congress (1805-07), yet was not able to get the money in time for one of his pet projects-buying Florida. In the 41st Congress, Ulysses...
Coaches lor Christ. For five prayer-filled days, the students gathered together to sing hymns and read Scripture, listen to lectures by faculty professors and missionaries on such topics as the dynamics of evangelism and the responsibilities of Christian ministry. Among the guest speakers were Billy Graham and Dr. Clyde Taylor, general director of the 2,000,000-member National Association of Evangelicals...
...mutely at the edge of a shallow ditch where the Nazi SS troops had burned corpses on pyres when the crematoria were filled. Traces of ash and bone could still be seen. One German picked up a yellowed, half-burned page printed in Hebrew. It was the Kaddish-the prayer for the dead. One of the accused, former SS Dr. Franz Lucas, who is charged with making life-or-death selections of incoming prisoners, voluntarily accompanied the court officials. Said Lucas: "It was my duty to come. Everyone who has the opportunity should come here and see what racism...
...infancy are treated with the tenderness of an uncle. The artist took his greatest liberties in the borders of his illuminations. There he imitates a grape arbor's lattice in textiles and lacework, borders a saint with pretzels that were originally baked to imitate hands clasped in prayer, in a secular study of commonplace reality...
...heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What...