Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who spent much time at the television set, as millions did, during a fortnight of American rites-the Inaugural, the flight home of the hostages, the Super Bowl with its quasi minute of silent prayer-saw some memorable moments. But the proportion of the memorable to the banal, the overhyped, the stage waits, the garrulous monologues when nothing was happening, was about...
...what appears to be passivity could be careful planning. Leroy Corey, chairman of the Iowa Conservative Union, expects Reagan to keep his campaign promise to try to restore school prayer and to restrict abortions, but he does not think the President should act precipitately. "The worst thing I think Reagan could do would be to take on too much at one time," he says. "That was one of Carter's big mistakes, trying to do 25 things at once. No one realistically expects the welfare state to be dismantled overnight...
...other hand, a few conservative nostrums do enjoy support among a majority of voters. Reinstitution of the death penalty is favored by 68%. The same percentage want to permit prayer in public schools. Providing federal funds to parochial schools is favored...
...declared: "These are the future of our country and none of us wants to see them become guerrillas." The local Indians broke into applause when he assured them that they would no longer have to fear guerrilla attacks against the town. An old Indian woman raised her hands in prayer and cried out: "Pray to God you are right...
...overlapping words convey an impression of unity and division. They were spoken last Sunday, during the 74th annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, as they are almost every week, at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Norfolk, Va. It is the only U.S. congregation officially listed as both a Roman Catholic and Episcopal church. Anglicanism kept a Catholic style of worship when it broke with Rome in the 16th century. Now, except for using separate altars at the consecration, parishioners recite the same liturgies, Catholic one week, Episcopal the next. From classes in religious education to church socials...