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...plunges while riding the BMT home to Brooklyn? Coach Ara Parseghian knew just what was needed. "Enthusiasm," reads a sign on his office wall. "If we have it, we should thank God for it. If we don't have it, we should get down on our knees and pray for it." Fact is, Ara could barely contain his enthusiasm when the Irish opened their season against Purdue two weeks ago. "Can I say you'll win all your games this year?" inquired a sportswriter, and Parseghian replied happily: "Say anything you want to." Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf...
...through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact, but a bouncing ball to help the audience pray along. Better read The Book...
Every image is white in this society, he continued. "Even when you go into the church and pray to Christ, you look up and sure enough he's white too, and you wonder 'will he hurt me'" McKissick said...
Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...
Perhaps the most ancient function of religion is assuring man that he will live past death-and live in physical fact as well as in spirit. It was such a vision of immortality that led the Egyptians to mummify bodies and stock tombs with worldly belongings. Christians pray for the "resurrection of the body" and have traditionally held that at the Last Judgment the tombs will open and the dead will rise again to life. This age-old belief, combined with new technology, makes it seem prudent to a growing number of Americans that they should arrange to have their...