Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swinging example of her work has been published jointly by the United Church Press and the Roman Catholic firm of Herder and Herder. Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book is a 50-page volume of mod meditations filled with brilliant swatches of color and eye-catching graphics. Most of Sister Corita's serigraphs use kaleidoscopic excerpts from advertising slogans blown up and tossed across the pages, often upside down, sideways or in mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse...
...king in a pique then rode his camel over her, but others thought Fitna too clever for such an ending. To get back in his good graces, the story goes, she arranged for the king to catch her carrying a cow up a flight of stairs. And how, pray tell, did she manage that? Simple, said Fitna. Ever since the cow was a newborn calf, she had performed the ritual; as its strength grew, so did hers: "Practice makes perfect...
...Defamation League find it too costly to support plaintiffs who wish to take individual teachers to court-and the impasse suits the Johnson Administration just fine. Next year's election poses enough problems for L.B.J. without sending federal lawyers after every school teacher who permits his children to pray...
...that the organization be better trained in riot control, his general reaction was one of unhurried stoicism. Accepting a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln from an Illinois group, he observed mildly: "We have been experiencing some of the same problems Abraham Lincoln did 100 years ago. We hope and pray that we can handle them with the compassion and wisdom that...
Jerry Dodge's drunken Porter is a commendable cameo. And he gives an admirable solution to one textual problem. Just before Macduff and Lennox enter through the gate, the Porter has the line, "I pray you, remember the porter." A number of scholars claim this is meant as an aside to the audience--which seems pretty silly. Dodge, however, saves the line until Macduff enters, and then speaks it with one palm extended, thereby turning it into a request for a tip in return for having roused himself to open the gate at an ungodly hour...