Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the emphasis of discussion falls too heavily on the limitations of policy, I recall from early childhood the admonition of the circuit preacher: 'Pray as if it were up to God; work as if it were...
...pray, by the Holy Spirit," he began, "I propose to the Protestant Episcopal Church that it, together with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, invite the Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ to form with us a plan of church union . . . Any other Churches which find that they can accept both the principles and plan would also be warmly invited to unite with us." The religious issue in the recent presidential election, suggested Blake, showed that the time is not only ripe but overripe. "Americans more than ever see the churches of Jesus Christ...
Miami's police pray that the Cubans will find jobs to keep them busy. But Dade County already counts 22,000 unemployed Americans, and probably no more than 1,000 refugees have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work...
...mock execution of the priest, complete with firing squad and blank cartridges, before shipping him off to a prison camp. In that moment Don Ardito suffers a murky but traumatic lapse of faith. Stripped of his calling, as he sees it, the priest no longer says Mass. Ceasing to pray, Don Ardito becomes the quarry of the Hound of Heaven...
...first of these eleven short stories, a man and his wife, living a life of crushing respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales...