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...needs a President who will do more than turn the other cheek and who is bolder than Carter the Meek...
Getty's Reminder. The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.−Oil Millionaire J. Paul Getty...
...Brooks, who is an impassioned Muppet fan, says that "the message they telegraph is The meek shall inherit the earth.' " Mostly this is true. Kermit is meek; he is thankful for each day during which the sky does not fall. Gonzo is meek, and Rowlf tinkles the ivories with a dogged smile. Fozzie Bear is a Teddy. Except for Animal, who wrestles alligators when he is let off his chain, the only alarming character in Muppet society is Miss Piggy, she of the iron fists in the lavender gloves. "She wants everyone to treat her like a lady...
Some 35 years ago, Black Poet Langston Hughes bitterly warned: "Negroes, sweet and docile/ Meek, humble and kind: Beware the day they change their mind." They have changed their minds, with a vengeance, says Silberman. "After 350 years of fearing whites, black Americans have discovered that the fear runs the other way, that whites are intimidated by their very presence; it would be hard to overestimate what an extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave...
...continue in the future, it is only naive for students to expect much to come of such exchanges so long as administrators bring to them the kind of defensive, uncommunicative attitude that characterized President Bok's address to the Quincy House seniors Monday night. Students must not accept the meek, passive role the University seems intent on having them play with regard to policy. While it is impossible to predict the shape of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement in the fall, students must not acquiesce to the April decision, for to do so would be a tacit acceptance of Harvard...