Word: meek
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That's how she struck me when I met her and as I watched her life. She was tough. There was the worn and weathered face, the abrupt and definite speech. We think saints are soft, ethereal, pious and meek. But some saints are steamrollers, and great saints are great organizers, great operators, great combatants in the world...
...ruining her marriage, she's gone to the head of a long line of women who have used the outdated U.S. divorce laws for highly questionable personal gain. For an entire century women have been screaming for equality--until they enter a divorce court. Then they suddenly become the meek, the downtrodden, poor souls who are blameless for the failure of their marriage. But women are 50% of a marriage. Why do our courts and society see divorce as a problem rooted in the male side of marriage? THOMAS G. CARUSO New York City...
...front of Tom-Tom, who pretends not to care. As if things weren't bizarre enough, Lulu (Jennifer Neale), Bingo's sister whom Goose apparently did kidnap, walks out of the closet, gives a powerful speech about how she will lead everyone to salvation, and punctuates it with a meek request for a glass of water...
...Master slams a gavel loudly at the head of the table and everyone in the hall stands in silence. A meek-looking undergraduate approaches High Table from the floor, and launches into a dialogue, completely in Latin, with the Master. The college grace lasts four and a half minutes and includes several false endings punctuated by 'Amen'. The student retreats back to the lower classes, and then dinner--served this way six times a week--begins...
...second piece was "Fandango," choreographed by Lar Lubovitch in 1990. Set to Maurice Ravel's Bolero, this piece was a dance for two, performed by Elizabeth Roxas and Leonard Meek. Clad in black midriff shirts and black tights ending in bare feet, they began with their arms and bodies connected and for the duration of the piece they were never separated for more then a few seconds. The choreography moved from simple embraces to lifts and complicated intertwingings of the two bodies that at times was sensual and erotic. The energy between the two dancers, as they rolled, turned...