Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post." Today, both Dale and Roy are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which they joined when they moved to a ranch outside Hollywood. They say grace at meals, and at night they pray around a family altar (made of one of Dale's old dressing tables). Sometimes Dale squeezes in her morning prayers while driving to work in her Dodge. "Then I read my Bible while I'm having my hair done...
...believes that their language illustrates one extreme of the art of courting. The Prince Regent (later George IV) showed the opposite extreme when, on being introduced to his bride-to-be, Caroline of Brunswick, he tottered backwards, crying to one of his courtiers: "Harris, I am not well. Pray get me a glass of brandy...
After Stalin. On the camp loudspeakers, Vorkuta learned of Stalin's historic stroke. The religious knelt to pray. Others sang joyously. "A 'political expectation' spread through Vorkuta," says Konrad Michailowski, onetime major in the German 16th tank division, who arrived in the camp in 1950. "Everyone thought that Malenkov, whom they called 'Uncle Zhorka,' would change things. Things didn't change and Vorkuta became ripe for trouble...
...Rambam's scientific theories, particularly where he leans on Aristotle, may be outdated," said Chief Rabbi Herzog at last week's ceremonies in Jerusalem. "But where he draws from his own spirit he remains the giant, unsurpassed since his own lifetime. Let us hope and pray that a second Rambam will rise up in our times . . . to guide the perplexed of our own people and of the entire world." Rabbi Herzog glanced upward to an inscription on the wall above him from the Mishneh Torah...
Spiritual Greed. Everyone he meets lends force to the argument that all Christians were meant to "pray without ceasing." Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories -a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer. Unlike a modern religious bestseller, though, the book does not suggest that he who prays will become healthier, wealthier or wiser-just happier...