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Inside the office to the left of the red door, however, lurk less pleasant reminders of current Advocate worries. A number of notes beseech members to pay their dues, which have escalated to $40 per year. Another announces. "The Advocate phone has been reconnected" over which someone has scrawled "Phone is dead." A hole in a carpet, a lamp without a shade, a curious emptiness to the threadbare offices all evoke a feeling that good times have come and gone. On a rainy Thursday afternoon, hours before the upcoming issue must be sent to production, only three editors find their...
...Riva, the town's patriotism "has never been higher, but there is increasing anxiety that war may affect this haven of peace in ways none dare predict." Father Fidencio Gago, the parish priest, was holding a special Mass every evening, leading the community in a simple prayer: "We beseech you, Mary, Holy Mother of Christ, that peace will come soon...
...approaching the point where we will be helpless, where we can no longer stand up and defend that friendship. If the U.S. persists in a pro-Israel policy, the only beneficiary will be the Soviet Union. I want to beseech all of you, when you get home, to open the eyes of your officials to the fact that this policy will end in disaster for American interests, for peace and for the free world...
...Barton, from Toronto, favors contemporary fantasies, steeped in rue and irony, like The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy. With his bemused schoolboy's face, Barton roams the stage, bending at the waist to beseech from his listeners the sympathy due this magically animated figure of China who-would you believe it?-falls in love but, alas, keeps smashing himself into pieces and being reassembled as a porcelain horse or, worse, a dinner set just before he can properly go awooing...
...prescribed daily prayers, a pious Muslim does not beseech God for favors, either material or spiritual, so much as for guidance and mercy. The word Islam means submission, and the true Muslim submits his life to the divine will of a deity who is the Compassionate, the All Knowing, the Strong, the Protector, the All Powerful-to cite only a few of the traditional 99 "most Beautiful Names...