Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week he keeps up his customary pace as he moves back and forth between New York (special Masses, dinners, receptions) and Boston (a private reunion with relatives). At 70, Spellman remains the foremost U.S. Catholic prelate and probably the busiest. As he put it 20 years ago: "I shall pray as if everything depended on God. I shall work as if everything depended...
...truly pray that-in some way-I've helped my fellow...
With Japan's increasing mimicry of the U.S., let us pray that this is not an impetus for the dissolution of traditionally strong Japanese familial bonds. It would be a pathetic thing indeed if American-style marriages led to a proportionate number of American-style divorces...
...Lawrence Turner step forward with a handsomely curlicued petition. Pointing to two brown paper parcels full of signatures, Turner started to read: "Regretting the innovations already being introduced and fearing that further mutilations will take place when the copyright expires in the Year of our Lord 1961, we . . . humbly pray that steps will be taken to perpetuate the copyrights in some public cultural body . . ." Occasion: the climax of a four-year campaign by Oxford's Dorothy May Alderley, 72, to preserve the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan from modern desecration...
First Impressions (book by Abe Burrows; music and lyrics by Robert Goldman. Glenn Paxton and George Weiss; choreography by Jonathan Lucas). Take a masterpiece. Tear out half its pages. Stuff the empty places with songs and dances. Rebind in expensive period finery. Open on Broadway, and pray that it is another My Fair Lady...