Word: meekness
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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...
...While Oswald appeared to most of those who knew him as a meek and harmless person," says the Commission, "he sometimes imagined himself as 'the Commander' and, apparently seriously, as a political prophet?a man who said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. His wife testified that he compared himself with great leaders of history. Such ideas of grandeur were apparently accompanied by notions of oppression. He had a great hostility toward his environment, whatever it happened to be, which he expressed in striking and sometimes violent acts long before the assassination...
...last week a packed audience at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop listened raptly as slim, meek Astrud Gilberto, 24, stood before a microphone and sang The Girl from Ipanema, in a voice so soft and introverted that it barely cut the smoke. Behind her, Stan Getz wove wispy filigrees on his tenor sax to produce the most infectious "new sound" around-the bossa nova nova...
...week's end, with all counties still not heard from, the topless suit remained a most delicate issue. As with Fanny Hill, the meek trembled while the smart set shrugged. English Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick got practical and confused things even more. "I'm too modest to wear a topless suit," said she, "but it actually would be more comfortable. It would be even more comfortable to swim without the bot tom as well...