Word: bede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London...
Past Is Present. What is anyone to make of all this? It is way out, and redeemed from boredom, if not confusion, by Sinclair's great verbal felicity. He can, in the manner of James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady...
...Bede's graduate himself. "It has been found that an older man can work hard for a short time, whereas if he had to face a longer period of study, he would become stale and discouraged...
...Bede's crams its courses into four years instead of the regular seminary...
Better Investment. Among its alumni St. Bede's totals some 1,000 priests, including one cardinal, several bishops and archbishops. Many of its students raised children before becoming priests; each class usually has three or four widowers...