Word: amenability
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...William Austin, bass; Frank Gant, drums; Argo). A quintet given to spicing the group sound with finger cymbals, a one-stringed rebab, and a scraped ram's horn turns its talents to exploring Leader-Composer Lateef's oriental-flavored jazz fancies. Morning and Let Every Soul Say Amen may be too exotic for some tastes, but the easy-swinging sax flights of Gillespie's Woody'n You ought to set any pulse to bouncing...
...With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain," sighed Friedrich Schiller, and Oscar Wilde added his amen: "There is no sin except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...
...Sherrill: "I, Henry Knox, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, Arthur, into the office of President Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors and privileges: in which may our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
...share in the blame. He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force to fill out a personality as large as Jimson's. And he seems to have ignored almost completely the extraordinary religious depths of the man, as expressed, for instance, in the amen he sings to life in his dying words...
...prayer today. How, 0 Lord, wouldst thou pray if thine own temple were now on the Old Colony line?" Turning to the legislators, he continued: "I pray for you, now it is your turn to pray over me. I'll pray-you vote-let God decide. Amen." The Senate tabled the bill...