Word: meekness
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...often as dogs appear, and it is quite often, they never convey meaning so effectively as when balanced by rabbits. Normally, rabbits are meek, small, soft and vegetarian, considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...
...Board of Preachers will reach its full complement of six members again, as the result of the appointment of Wallace Woodsome Robbins and Frederick Mayer Meek, announced last night by Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University. Both appointments were made with the unanimous concurrence of the present members of the Board...
Buttrick stated that both of the new Members are men of great "stature and gifts." Robbins, Minister of the First Unitarian Church, Worcester, is former associate dean of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. Meek, who is senior Minister of Old South Church (Congregational), Boston, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Andover Newton Theological Seminary...
With the advent of Explorer, perhaps aggressive man will find a better planet on which to live. Then surely "the meek shall inherit the earth...
Jane Cronin plays the meek sister quietly, almost mutely, almost ideally. Her searching, nearly childlike smile needs no words to help it unfold the character's frail tenderness. Olympia Dukakis, as the maid who is at one point compared to a walrus and who never travels without her goldfish, often squawks excellently, although her accent seems queasy. Her face is powerful. Richard Gavin plays the nephew with grace, youth, and a good balance of strength and weakness; he makes an effective contrast to the old judge, played by the director. Ree Christiansen, the fierce sister, screws her icy nerves...