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Self-moved, obedient to the beck of gods...
...Jews. Baeck refused to go into exile himself; in 1943 he was arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where his four sisters died. Baeck survived only by accident: the SS assumed that they had liquidated the leader of German Jewry when another rabbi, named Beck, died...
Willingly serve in the positions assigned to them, remain at the General's beck and call... obey without argument, without even thinking, and kiss. If they must, the hand that smites them. For is it not true that the General always has good reason for his acts, and that once again, as always, he is in the right...
...back," he hallooed from the launch that whisked him off to federal pen on Washington's McNeil Island in 1962. Last week, 41 Ibs. lighter, erstwhile Teamster Boss Dave Beck completed 30 months of his five-year term for faking tax returns and put-putted back to civilization. Obviously he had taken McNeil's Eng. Lit. course, "I have returned," pronounced Beck, who plans to indulge his old fancy for real estate and possibly write his memoirs to vindicate his minority view that he is "not guilty, and I hope that if what I'm saying...
Another schema, on "The Church and the Modern World," denounced nuclear weapons that have "effects greater than can be imagined" as "most wicked." Some European and Oriental prelates wanted to make this denunciation even more specific; but Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington and Archbishop George Andrew Beck of Liverpool argued that the schema said too much about banning the bomb and too little about disarmament controls. Beck said that the council should not be too quick to condemn governments that have kept the peace and freedom through the nuclear deterrent: "To turn the other cheek is a counsel...