Word: minione
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BLOBBING DAMPLY up the grand stairway of the Agassiz Theatre, to keep his appointment with Timothy Mayer's masterful staging of Jesus (A Passion Play for Cambridge), this reviewer passed by Peter W. Johnson--a Technical Director qualified to retire the title--locked in brief colloquy with a bearded minion. A conversation was overheard. Quoth the minion: "There are no more weights." Replied Johnson: "Well...use anything...
...years as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Samuel Harvey Shapiro was the man who came in the back door to see Governor Otto Kerner. So self-effacing was Shapiro that most voters knew him merely as a loyal Democratic minion from Kankakee-if they knew him at all. Last week the stocky, homely "Mr. Sam," 61, was sworn in as Governor of Illinois...
...UNITED NATIONS HANDICAP (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The $100,000 race for three-year-olds broadcast live from Atlantic City. Among the entries will be minion-dollar winner Buckpasser...
...whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
...Logically, this argument is strong," continued the judge. But logic "is a minion of the law, not its master." More important, such exemption aids "the general welfare, apart from any benefit that religious organizations derive from it." Many church activities bring "substantial benefit to the community, such as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Programs such as these serve public needs; the performance of these functions by private agencies saves the state the expense of providing the same services...