Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress began consideration of proposed amendments to the Constitution that would permit supposedly voluntary prayer in public schools, overturning Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that are bitterly resented by many religious groups and their political allies. The high court rulings, cried Ohio Republican Delbert Latta during an all-night House speech-making session, "favor atheism over Christianity...
...President Reagan threw the full weight of his persuasive powers behind the drive for school prayer; in fact, one of the amendments up for debate was drafted under his supervision at the White House. Said the President, in an address to the National Association of Evangelicals in Columbus: "I firmly believe that the loving God who has blessed our land and made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms...
Together, the three developments demonstrated that church-state disputes are reaching a level of emotional intensity not seen since conservatives mounted the drive to impeach Earl Warren. The campaign, as it happens, was fueled partly by the decisions, made when he was Chief Justice, that prayer or Bible readings in public schools violate the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion...
...Celibidache's pianissimi are courageous, and in them, Eros stretches provocatively. Each intense, chromatic line is achingly detailed, and when the climax of the Love-Death is reached, the effect is shattering. "Music," says Celibidache, "is a meditation. When it is transcendent, it is as transcendental as a prayer." In the concluding Scythian Suite, Celibidache unleashes Prokofiev's panoply of barbaric orchestral splendor...
Reagan's remark at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he speculated on the power of prayer in terms of "megatonnage" betrays just how casually he views the use of thermo-nuclear weapons. Not long ago that casual view was exemplified by administration talk of "nuclear warfighting capability", "nuclear warning shots", "survivability", and "twenty million acceptable deaths". Pressure from public opinion in an election year has cosmeticized Reagan's verbage on the issue. But his actions are plain enough...