Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Wilson, a clever, sharp-tongued and very partisan politician, Heath usually arouses little more than yawns. The conservative squirearchy, which still dominates much of Tory politics, is not particularly delighted that their leader is a Kentish carpenter's son who got through Balliol College on an organ scholarship. Nor does Heath's modest background win him friends in working-class districts-not when the single, silver-haired politician is known to be devoted to music and a 34-ft. sloop he races with public-school friends...
...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
BRIAN PATRICK McGUIRE Graduate Student Balliol College Oxford, England
Magaziner, who wrote his senior honors thesis on "The Decline of Metaphysical Religion and Values in the West," is now preparing to joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College. They expect him to follow a traditional doctoral program; he wants a sweeping, cross-disciplinary plan of his own design. Having already shaken up a 200-year-old university, Magaziner is not much intimidated by one that is three times older. Meantime, back at Brown, his impact can be measured by a widely quoted campus graffito: "Ira, please see me-God." "You come...
...Winchester and Oxford-where it was held that history and literature ended with Demosthenes and Juvenal-turned him into a Greek and Latin scholar. As a result he never quite ceased, despite his own determined efforts, to look at the history of all mankind through the eyes of a Balliol classicist. Half of Toynbee's contemporaries died in World War I, and the fact made him a lifelong pacifist. He had been lucky enough to pick up dysentery which disqualified him for military service and thus possibly saved his life. The resulting mixture of guilt and gratitude marked Toynbee...