Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbol of their concern for Atlanta's children. In Cincinnati, for example, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus is urging citizens to wear green armbands (to signify life). At week's end, the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. called for a 24-hour prayer vigil for people of all denominations at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip. Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, last week called for a series of "moratorium on murder" marches around the country, starting with one last weekend from the Georgia state capitol to the Martin Luther King...
After an introductory prayer, Short quoted extensively from the Bible to prove that "the theory of racism has no place biblically." Speaking in passionate tones, he urged the audience to be "righteous and holy against oppression." Summing up the Church's effect on racism, he said "The Church has made feeble attempts to protest racism, but has often been co-opted into the system...
Kean fills the stage without overrunning it. A little too soft in "Anyone Can Whistle"--from a Sondheim show that closed after only one week--she treats this thoughtful, almost philosophical song with the same muted projection and shyness that are more appropriate to the lighter "Broadway Baby," a prayer for theatrical hopefuls, waiting for that one big chance...
...things we knew held us together: prayer of something good to come and song that tells from the depth of the heart how we feel about our fellow...
...other hand, if Reagan flops, Dolan will have a hard time convincing frustrated voters that they want further cutbacks on social programs and money spent on defense. Either way, Weicker figures Dolan will shoot his political wad too early on non-economic issues such as abortion, prayer in schools, and the Panama Canal treaty. "The bulk of the people are too busy worrying about paychecks to be distracted over the long run by the single-issue movement," Weicker says...