Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the big house walls, the Muslims attempt to proselyte in the mess halls, in the exercise areas, wherever they encounter other Negroes. Converts go through a reform of sorts, if they obey Elijah's injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims...
...other three managed to absorb his shock when he hit the end of the rope. Gingerly the team passed "death bivouac," where two members of the first north wall team froze to death in 1935. The fourth night out, watching his tiny, portable barometer fall ominously, Hiebeler began to pray that the weather would hold. It did: the morning was cloudless...
Judith Kegan's article on "Hasidism and Neo-Hasidism" seems to me to overestimate contemporary student interest in and enthusiasm for this 18th century Jewish religious-mystical movement. As in the pietistic Protestant sects, Hasidism's adherents were commanded to pray to God with enthusiasm, joy, and ecstasy ("More pleasing to God is the stammering of a whole soul than learned prayers said in pride, or without heart...
About 40 New Square citizens work in New York City and commute on a bus dubbed "The Mobile Synagogue." En route, the commuters pray, and when female passengers are aboard, a curtain separates them from the men, in observance of Jewish law. In the warm kitchens -each with two sinks and two stoves to keep dairy and meat foods strictly separate-the women work and wonder when the community will be free of its mundane bedevilments. It is not likely to be soon. Says Ramapo's town attorney, David Moses, himself a Jew: "We have done more for them...
...Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that he might star...