Word: prayers
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...Prayer has never been prohibited in this nation of many religions. We should not fetter our freedom of religion by mandating Christian public prayer in our schools [May 17]. This will lead only to making the non-Christian child a pariah...
There is not a false note in Short Shorts. The contents-38 fictions-range back to Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits, whose pious innocents forget a prayer and run on top of the ocean to find their condescending teacher. The most recent are powerful condensations of modern life by Heinrich Boll, who describes a professional laugher producing merriment on cue for everyone but himself, and Paula Fox, whose News from the World describes a woman and her contaminated seaside village withering for lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other...
During Ronald Reagan's first year in office, he urged patience on his New Right supporters, who wanted fast action on politically charged social issues like permitting prayer in public schools. The Administration needed time, said the President and his men, to concentrate on more urgent economic problems. With the economy's downward spiral beginning to erode Reagan's political base, the President moved last week to regain some good will with a constituency that is vital for him. At the same time he moved to diminish the anger of another group, which has never trusted...
...President's call last week for a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools was both a deft expression of support for a New Right cause that seems to have broad public appeal and an effective maneuver to defuse this potentially explosive issue. Even as the New Right was basking in the warmth of Reagan's Rose Garden homily on the virtues of prayer in schools, the Justice Department advised the Senate that a pending bill to override the 1962 Supreme Court decision banning such prayer was probably unconstitutional. Presidential support for a prayer amendment will...
Conservatives were also pleased by the Administration's handling of their call to ban busing as a method of desegregating schools. On the same day he sent his letter on school prayer to the Senate, Attorney General William French Smith notified House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino that careful examination of a bill designed to prohibit lower federal courts from ordering busing plans "indicates that [its provisions] are constitutional." This was also a hollow victory for the New Right: although the bill has passed the Senate, it is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled House...