Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invocation, for example, reads in part: "To Lord Narayana, to lotus-born Brahma, the Creator, to Vashishta, to Shakti, and to his son, Parashar, to Vyasa, to Shukadava . . . I bow down . . . At whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night, adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed down to him, we gain fulfillment...
Bartenders in Harvard Square yesterday saw both advantages and disadvantages to the bill. "We might lose a few townies," Charlie Hughes, a bartender at Father's 6, said yesterday. Bob Pray, a bartender at 33 Dunster St. said he thought the bill "would create a good-sized hassle." "It's hard to tell the difference between 18 year-olds and 19 year-olds," said Pray...
...have much political awareness about them. In fact the most visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and Hail Marys. They march to neighborhood churches to pray and sing hymns, sometimes kneeling down to statues of patron saints to pray for intercession to stop forced busing. The unvoiced desire to keep blacks out of their schools and community is obviously there, producing prayers that are suspect in their motivation and intent...
...SIZWE BANZI and The Island are Kani and Ntshona. Kani and Ntshona laugh, cry, joke, pray, confide, console, with the unforced naturalness of the neighbors next door, but glow in our dreams and memories even weeks after the performances with a stunningly vivid brilliance. It is as if we had swallowed whole a complete vocabulary of previously undiscovered emotions, gestures, and facial and body expressions. A particular situation, the gesture of a friend, can, at some of the most unexpected moments, trigger the memory of an image or scene from the plays, much as we are suddenly reminded by smells...
...join the largest crowd in the stadium's history. I had some how finagled my way to seats on the 50, sandwiched between members of the board of overseers of B.C. Priests sprinkled among the crowd were obviously burdened with the choice: Should they cheer for BC and pray for Notre Dame or cheer for ND and pray for the Eagles? There was also a clear David-and Goliath parallel here with the bulk of the crowd in the kid's corner. The Goodyear blimp looked on uncommittedly...