Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the Sabbath, Reagan's schedule on the first day of his second term was kept deliberately low key: a 45-minute prayer service at the National Cathedral, to be followed by the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. In the late afternoon, the President was due at the Jefferson Memorial to attend the National Pageant of Young Americans, one of several Inaugural events designed to increase the participation of incipient Republicans...
...town of Dover, writing a brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. But Dover Beach was not a celebration of the age; it was a lament, a complaint and a prayer. Looking coldly and sadly at what he saw as his country's destructive self-confidence, Arnold despaired that the advancement of knowledge should be attended by the loss of human feeling...
...known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel has reported that at least 88 Faith Assembly members have died from treatable illnesses...
...compelling version of this great play. It is funny, full of an ironic humor that makes its profundity palatable and insidiously convincing. It is frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...