Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rush, rush, rush - so, from prayer breakfast to personal politicking to crisis confrontation, went President John son's week...
...President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among the Prestigious. Then came the annual presidential prayer breakfast, attended by some 1,000 men at the Mayflower Hotel. Evangelist Billy Gra ham preached, Revival Singer George Beverly Shea let out resoundingly with My Saviour God to Thee, and Johnson called for a privately financed, all-faiths "Center of Prayer" in Washington. He then went across the hall...
Taking such a sharp and familiar tone with God would be called chutzpah in Yiddish, but what Leonard Bernstein intended for his Third Symphony was a musical statement of Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Bernstein's Kaddish was commissioned for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 75th anniversary eight years ago, but it was not until three years ago that Lenny was gripped with "this horrible sense of imminent destruction," and finally buckled down to work. Last week Boston finally played its Kaddish...
Bernstein conceives of the prayer as less a lament for the dead than an affirmation of life in the face of death, a celebration of God at the very moment when his mystery is the most difficult to bear. This dualistic concept gives his music a savage, struggling complexity, in which great orchestral thunder dies under the thumb of fragmentary jazz melodies, then resolves itself in intricate contrapuntal passages for both chorus and orchestra. But Bernstein does not settle on any idiom long enough to perfect it. Because his concentration span is short to the point of dilettantism, he achieves...
...days of Johnson's presidency he has turned frequently to prayer to help him bear the grave burdens of that high and difficult office. One feels, of course, a glow of quiet pride in the knowledge of our Chief Executive's devoutness. How onerous it would be to be denied the continuation of this White House tradition. Our thoughts wander back to that historic night in 1898, when William McKinley knelt in his office in reverent communion with the Lord, before coming to the Mutual Decision to launch his courageous Spanish-American War. Johnson's proposal of a Monument...