Word: meek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theology, his chatty sermons are lightened by references to such contemporary phenomena as booing cricket umpires, which he deplores, and cosmetics, which he endorses ("God made women beautiful, and they should develop this talent"). When he recently took his text from the Sermon on the Mountain"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"-Powell turned it into a homily on how to live with an inferiority complex...
...Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take the resolute part they will undoubtedly prove very meek." The "resolute part" was taken, making the Revolution inevitable...
...effect, these students participate in the same sort of adolescent fantasy-power life. They are Harvard's Walter Mittys; many are also wonks of varying descriptions. Meek Milquetoasts in reality, they attend Albert Finney or Belmondo or James Bond movies on nights off from Lamont. Identifying powerfully with their heroes, they sneer at themselves in the men's room mirror of the Harvard Square Theatre during intermission...
Cliffies greeted the innovations in Lamont with general delight. While one meek upperclassman admitted that "it's kind of sad to see the last bastion crumble," most sympathized with one militant who said, "This is just the beginning. We will take over...
...lost." His own preference is for abstract figural arrangements with the "thumping, alive sense of skin on skin." After painting 25 variations of his wife in the bath, he embarked on a detached but erotic series of paintings that explored the life and strangled loves of John Christie, the meek little Londoner whose hobby was murdering whores. Why Christie? "Most people," says Whiteley, "can escape from the essential meaninglessness of life just with a few beers or a game of darts. Christie could only do it by taking human life...