Word: meek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEDAZZLED. Two members of the wily Beyond the Fringe foursome play Faust and loose with an old theme as a meek short-order cook (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to the Devil (Peter Cook) in return for seven wishes...
...began it with four Beatitudes, three of them followed by the California rural reality. For example, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (the farm worker's average income is $1,378 a year)." And "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor has concluded that the impoverishment and misery of the rural poor is 'shocking')." Winding up his proposal, Lorenz described in detail how his already in corporated California Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down...
...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...
Wehner and Socialist ministers in the coalition defended their actions as necessary for Germany's welfare, promised to press hard for Socialist goals when the country can better afford them. Brandt managed to defuse the conference by warning the Christian Democrats not to expect the Socialists to be "meek as lambs." "I call the Grand Coalition neither a marriage of love nor a shotgun marriage," he said, "but a question of practical politics." After that, the Socialist delegates departed, considerably meeker themselves...
...that crowd represents you." A group of 100 unrehearsed whites and Negroes gathered in a Chicago studio to blast away at one another. A Negro evangelical preacher reported that "our program is to try to solve the problem with love." "When he says Christian love," snorted Black Revolutionary Russ Meek, "he means Uncle Tomism! You're a disgrace to the race!" A Negro adolescent follower of Meek said: "I'm for violence, because we have pleaded for the last 400 years!" A Negro woman snapped: "I've been integrated all I need to be integrated...