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Last season in Britain, the BBC presented a program called That Was the Week That Was, a sort of U.K. News & World Retort in which a group of bright and biting youths said what they pleased about Parliament, the Crown and current affairs. It was ragged and embarrassingly sophomoric, but it had the stamp of originality, and it became a sizable milestone in British television...
Large and jolly Victor Lord Roth schild, 53, the titular head of the Brit ish family, is a Cambridge don who has made a mark as philanthropist, scien tist and Labor peer, is also chairman of Shell Research. An expert on fertili zation, he once astonished BBC-TV viewers by bringing before the cameras an enormous model of a human sperm. (His daughter Emma, 15, this year be came the youngest woman ever admitted to Cambridge.) Like many Roth schild men and women who have made a tradition of volunteering for hazardous duty in wars from 1870 onward...
Lewis was very much a private man who was most at home arguing metaphysics with a handful of friends over tea, tobacco and public-house ale. But his faith was a public one, and he asserted it in BBC broadcasts and in most of his more than 30 books. None earned him greater fame than a series of letters he wrote for the Manchester Guardian in 1941, cast in the form of instructions from a bureaucratic demon in hell's "Lowerarchy" to a junior devil engaged in corrupting a human soul. A witty Baedeker of modern sin, The Screwtape...
...gods and demons than in one of hypostatised abstract nouns." His was, in a way, a simple faith; he wrote about it with great sophistication, although more with an amateur's love than a professor's learning. "All I'm doing," he once told a BBC audience, "is to get people to face the facts-to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer." It was a moderate goal, but immoderately achieved: few 20th century men better understood the questions, or put the facts so well...
...black Daimler, was momentarily roused from introspection by the cheers of the crowd; Hailsham, reportedly the hardest-dying, refused to say anything about anything. They came and went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make an outstanding Prime Minister." Heading for home and bed just before midnight, Home could only be sure that...