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DIED. Samuel Meek, 85, who as overseas manager of the J. Walter Thompson Co. helped build it into the world's largest advertising agency; in Greenwich, Conn. A former managing editor of the Yale Daily News, Meek was instrumental in helping two of his ex-staffers, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, to obtain the financing to launch TIME magazine in 1923. Meek, who served on the Time Inc. board of directors for 48 years, joined Thompson in 1925 and expanded its fledgling international operations to 35 offices on six continents before retiring as vice chairman...
Feminists argue that the clever and strong women in folk and fairy tales are almost always hags, witches or deranged stepmothers. The heroines, says Author Ethel Johnston Phelps, "are good, obedient, meek, submissive to authority and naturally inferior to the heroes...
Typically, Phelps flattens out the story of Scheherazade by leaving in the logic and removing the magic: Why should the heroine fall in love with the murderous king or beg for her life? Writes the author: "Many readers may well be disappointed with these meek and improbable endings." Bettelheim pays more attention to the hidden message of the tale: Scheherazade and the king represent warring forces within the psyche: depressed and destructive vs. good and reasonable. The peace between Scheherazade and the king says that the child can be whole...
...react by passing stiff laws requiring longer minimum prison sentences. Result: more prisoners stay longer in prisons that are already crammed well past their planned capacity. Tensions rise as up to five inmates crowd into one-man cubicles. Gang rule prevails, as the toughest convicts abuse and torment the meek or nonviolent, and guards on undermanned correction staffs fear to intervene. When an inmate is finally freed, he is equipped for only one thing: to survive in the ways of the walled jungle. More often than not, he returns to a life of crime...
...strategy, it seems remarkable that Walesa has managed to check Solidarity's innate militancy. Says Bogdan Lis, 28, the only union leader who belongs to the Communist Party: "None of us has trust or belief in those people [the authorities]. We consider them opponents." Alina Pienkowska, 28, a meek-looking nurse who is actually a firebrand, says the authorities have to prove that "the renewal of our life doesn't end with the personnel changes in the party." Most Solidarity leaders believe that the party needs to be shoved. Says Bogdan Borusewicz, 31, a professional activist...