Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing that ordeal, some joke and some jeer, some cringe and some cry, some drink and some pray. No man is born brave, but it is a brave sight to see a man acquire courage, and Journey's End shows us that too. This is a spare, sharp, impeccable revival, never quaint, never condescending, never squandering any surplus energy on belaboring the obvious by bad-mouthing war. The entire cast, and especially Peter Egan's taut, tart, nerve-shelled Captain Stanhope, deserves medals at the curtain...
...truck driver who is blind in his right eye, says that "Artie may be 21 but he is still a boy." Hunched over a glass of Andeker beer in a dim South Side tavern last week, he grieved: "Oh, if only Artie'd shot me instead. I never pray, but last night I prayed and I prayed very hard." Bremer, a distraught, broken man who wore his silver-white hair in a ponytail until his wife cut it the day after the shooting, told TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Burton Pines that he also did something else...
...face of nuclear disaster, we too pray that China and the Soviet Union will exercise restraint. But from the American people, we hope for the opposite. Critics of the President and his war policy have been too restrained for too long. As Nixon revs up the war machine and veers toward the abyss, we must place ourselves in his path. We must force the slaughter to a halt...
...provision for taxes on income," he instructed the Joint Economic Committee to report any other companies listed in FORTUNE'S 500 that were able to wiggle out of income taxes in 1971. Vanik then asked the House: "If an operation of this dimension pays no federal taxes, pray tell, who should...
...Greene, suddenly looked out the window at the setting sun, realized that it was time for prayer, and, asking Greene's pardon, abruptly stopped the conversation. Putting on a gartel (a cord round the waist that symbolizes the biblical "girding of the loins"), he turned to the window to pray. Greene was so impressed that he invited the young man back for further conversations and gradually became a fully observant Lubavitcher...