Word: meekness
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...amazed at how terribly meek they all are-more and more. They genuinely want to learn things, I think. At a certain age they realize they have a certain insularity. But of course they really can't get off their asses. You're not going to get Ralph Lowell Jr.-a classic Brahmin fundraiser type-to raise money from Southern alumni for black colleges...
Tchaikovsky once wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meek: "A creative artist leads a double life, one part of it being human, the other artistic. They do not always coincide." They still don't. The real question is which Tchaikovsky will turn up on the Late Show (munch, crunch) ten years from...
...Beerbohm, a self-described miniaturist, once devoted an essay to a minister who asked a single meek question of Dr. Johnson. But in this age of miniaturization, Brendan Lehane has gone the Incomparable Max one less. He has devoted an entire book to a subject even more insignificant than an 18th century clergyman-the flea...
...those flinthearted skeptics and chimney-corner Christians who never really believed that the meek shall inherit the earth, let it be recorded that on Sept. 10, anno Domini 1969, at 8:43 p.m. (EOT), the New York Mets (TIME cover, Sept. 5), the court jesters of baseball for seven long, lugubrious years, marched triumphantly past the Chicago Cubs and into first place in the National League's Eastern Division standings. Naturally, in defeating the Montreal Expos 3-2 to achieve that pinnacle, the Mets committed three errors and struck out 16 times...
Most of the racket comes from automobiles, and most automobiles are small Volkswagens, assembled in Sāo Paulo. The whine of their four-cylinder engines and the beep of their horns are, at least to Brazilian ears, disappointingly meek. As a result, manufacturers of install-it-yourself kits do a booming business in noisemakers. The beetles' mewling toot is replaced by full-throated klaxons that belt out bars of hard-rock music or soar into the oscillating wail of European ambulances. The VW's short-stroke engine remains untouched, but its exhaust is channeled through complicated "extractors...