Word: prays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excellent foppery of the world...") is shortened and presented as part of a dialogue between Edmund and his brother. Jack McGowran's Fool is more than competent but too clearly the sage unrecognized. And, incomprehensibly, Brook leaves out two of the best lines in the play, Lear's dying "Pray you undo this button," and Kent's "Break, heart; I prithee break," after his king's death...
...effect is totally lost. When Lear sees that Cordelia (Annelise Gabold), his sole loving daughter, is dead, he utters the fivefold "Never" that some regard as the greatest single line in English drama. But in the film, he does not fumble at his throat and go on to say "Pray you, undo this button," thus depriving the act of tragic purgation and vertiginous descent from regal magnificence to the pitiable humanity of the commonplace...
When the Supreme Court outlawed school prayers nearly ten years ago, it set loose an entire American cosmology of angels and devils and libertarians and ministers and pedants. Had the perversion of law really come to such a pass of depravity that children would be forbidden to pray? What of the separation of church and state? Religious and constitutional pieties contradicted one another. The emotional and the rational battled in politicians' minds...
...vote against the idea was, emotionally at least, heretical. But as Utah Representative K. Gunn McKay, a Mormon elder, said, "I do not want Government tampering with my faith." Ohio's Samuel L. Devine replied: "The courts say you can read dirty books but can't pray in school...
...York's ancient Emanuel Celler, 83, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. A majority of 240 to 162 favored it but that was 28 votes short of the required two-thirds. Remarkably, a considerable lobby of churchmen opposed the idea. They argued that children -and their parents-can pray at home and, more substantively, that the churches in America have flourished under the First Amendment, which would have been weakened by the proposed change...