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...waiting time for purchasing a private automobile is frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels outstrips the supply. To beat black marketeers to the punch, Poland...
...Stones now are criticized for being just a good band playing good music. It is no coincidence that the Stones' last album and its leading cut are entitled "It's Only Rock and Roll" (the refrain: "and I like it, like it, yes I do"). The album conveys a humbler, more human appeal. Here, even the Stones "ain't too proud to beg," and the now admittedly mortal Jagger sings "time waits for no one and it won't wait for me". Unable to sustain their Pop myth, they ask (with false modesty) to be accepted just like any other...
Today's religious renewals often do little more than provide selfish personal kicks and highs. The humbler churches agree with Walt Kelly's Pogo, who sounded like a biblical theologian when he said, "We have faults which we have hardly used yet." Nevertheless, Jews and Christians still see the height of prophetic faith in Micah's command to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." A hundred million American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made...
...never thought of myself as a comedian," says Art of the years he spent making a household name for himself as the good-natured humbler Ed Norton. He tried hard to avoid being typed, and increasingly, work on Broadway came his way, culminating in stardom in The Odd Couple...
...taken many forms, from proclaiming and then dissecting the death of God to staging folk-rock masses, none of them particularly "radical" in any substantial way. In fact, none of the so-called radical theologians, including Cox himself, has proved either as substantive or as radical as the three humbler men from whom they learned their stuff, Bonhoeffer, Buber and Tillich...