Word: acton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge, it was much the same. There were trips to old abbeys and castles that "haunted me like a passion." There was flashing talk in the common rooms, deep conversations with young Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead; and there were frequent visits to that master historian, Lord Acton...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Trevelyan to Acton's old Cambridge professorship. By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs. Humphry Ward, novelist niece of Matthew Arnold), had became famous as a historian himself. Thirteen years later, Winston Churchill made him Master of Trinity College. There he reigns, the "Grand Old Man" of Trinity Lodge...
...aware of the gifts he did not have; he once said he would have given everything he had done for the spontaneous lyric quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...
...Oxford, Waugh's flight from the bourgeoisie was furthered. Evelyn became one of a mauve circle of which glittery, willowy Harold Acton was the titular Tiresias. Says Acton, who is supposed to have modeled for one of the more exotic characters in Brideshead, in his Memoirs of an Aesthete (recently published in England): "An almost inseparable boon companion at Oxford was a little faun called Evelyn Waugh. Though others assure me that he has changed past recognition, I still see him as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by conventional apparel. His wide-apart eyes, always ready to be startled...
...evening the Harvard Liberal union rejected a proposal of the union for Democratic Action for merger of the Union's activities with that of the Harvard liberal group. Meeting in Lowell Junior Common Room, some thirty members of the university group decided against joining the New York, London, Washington Acton group and once again pledged solidarity with its own affiliate, the United States Student Assembly...