Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back last week from a short sojourn in the South was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest of the Community of the Resurrection who has become a symbol and rallying point of resistance to apartheid in South Africa, where he has been stationed for twelve years. In Africa, whence his superiors have recently recalled him to England, white supremacists viewed him with alarm as a kamrboetie (roughly, nigger-lover) and predicted he would not be allowed to visit the U.S. Southern states, let alone be permitted to speak there. But Father Huddleston was able to travel and to talk with...
More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
...Anglican Auden's $250 became the start of a fund to remove the House of Hospitality from the city's firetrap list. The total was expanded to $950 at week's end by a rash of contributions from newspaper readers. That still left some $27,000 needed to pay for the job, but Dorothy Day was unperturbed. "We'll just go ahead with an architect and pray," she said...
...Clive Staples) Lewis is a High Anglican Lorelei in the gown of a Cambridge don. The author of The Screwtape Letters lures not to shipwreck but salvation, and many a troubled 20th century secularist who came to scoff at Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul...
Died. Sheila Kaye-Smith, 68, British writer of finely tooled novels (Joanna Godden, Susan Spray) set in the Sussex countryside, where she spent most of her life. Sheila Kaye-Smith published her first novel at 20, married onetime Anglican Clergyman Theodore Penrose Fry, was converted to Roman Catholicism with him in 1929, and turned in her writing to religious themes...