Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPIRE, by William Golding. Overriding church, chapter and parish, a saintly dean drives his architect to build a huge, prayer-envisioned stone spire on the shaky foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature...
...wonder just how lucky we American people can be to have such a splendid man as Mr. Johnson holding the reins of government in steady hands at this awesome time. I'm of the rank-and-file but feel we should all be united in one thing-prayer for his continued health. (MRS.) CAROLINE C. JOHNSON San Jose, Calif...
...before the committee last week. Ala bama refuses to "order God out of our neighborhood schools," cried Wallace. "We will stand up for God! We will stand up for America!" More constructively, Sheen suggested that no amendment was needed. But he added, "I fear for a country which outlaws prayers in schools." Said he: Let schools be allowed at least to adopt "the prayer that every member is carrying in his pocket -'In God We Trust...
Price had asked the Rev. Joseph I. Collins, chaplain to Catholic students at Harvard and Radcliffe, to request Cushing to approve Catholic participation in the University prayer series. Collins will conduct the morning service for the first time this Friday...
...grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary...