The phone directory was his favorite storybook, with all the new exchanges and Dial-a's: Dial-a-Joke, Dial-a-Devotion and Dial-a-Prayer, 24-hour-a-day voices, improvisations on the dial tone: something to listen to when you have no one else to call.
The Met on the radio is often what first brought them to opera, kindling a lifelong devotion and sometimes an important operatic career (those of Betty Allen and Susan Graham, to name just two).
Allah's story of how he made these color photographs, between 2012 and 2016 (plus a handful of others, monochrome, made a little earlier), is a story of adventure, devotion, and love — a tale of pursuing a paradoxical form of beauty, one that arises from ravaging and destructive circumstances.
Vaishnavism emphasizes their character as an introduction to a life of devotion and as an entrance into closer contact with God, although happiness, knowledge, a long life, and a prospect of freedom from karma are also among the ideals to which they aspire.
(Is it noteworthy that in the 1980s the Virgin Mary appeared to to six mystic Mejugorje, Yugoslavia school children who were raised in a community given to Marian devotion and attending a church with a huge mural of Mary on its walls? Is it interesting that no one but Catholic mystics experience visions of Mary?).
The M was Maynard S. Spence Jr., 42, her husband, a man with a deep devotion and a flair for the romantic.
Pietists urged a renewal of personal devotion and a less combative attitude toward rival religious systems, including Judaism.
If it is love, devotion and a cult following a player is after, Turkey is indeed the perfect destination.
It was a laboratory maze for the Breadman people, a test of their devotion and a method of schooling them in the proper rituals.
