Word: prays
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There are also conservative arguments against public school prayer. The practical counterargument is that it would buy time for the public school system. One of the great engines of disenchantment with the way bureaucrats instruct children is the religious right, for which Johnny's inability to pray and to read are linked. Returning prayer to public schools might deflect conservative evangelicals from the campaign against the education establishment. Evangelists for school choice don't want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools...
...Invoking the words of God, the priests regularly threaten the young men with tales of hell and torture. They force the boys to believe that the orphanage is their last refuge in a society that has rejected them. Daily religious instruction inculcates the boys to accept their lot and pray for a heaven--a better life--in the next world, or suffer the consequences of eternal damnation here on earth...
Virtually the only Fifth Avenue building without even a sprig of festoonery is Saint Patrick's Cathedral. But then Christmas in New York, as in most American cities, is less a religious feast than a mercantile festival, whose motto could be "Buy now, pray later." Many retailers rely on this season for fully half their sales and profits. Similarly, performing-arts organizations use holiday chestnuts like Amahl and the Night Visitors and Handel's Messiah as surefire crowd lures. The New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each...
Many goaltenders would gulp and pray. Tracy, instead, charged out of his crease, and, as Mulhern cut left, lunged with his stick to poke-check the puck away from Mulhern. In the same motion, Tracy was also able to corral the biscuit under his body to stop the play...
...film also addresses the nature of story telling itself. The story opens when a publisher arrives in the village, wanting more information about the Donnadieus' story. The publisher provides a voice-over, recounting how his ancestors used to go into the woods to light a fire and pray. As generations passed, aspects of that ritual were lost--the ability to pray, to light a fire, even to know where the sacred place was. All that remains in our generation is the ability to tell the story...