Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been eaten by a lion, learned only months later that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to the gold mines of South Africa. There, working by day and studying by night, he accumulated a little learning and a little money, with the help of a Methodist bishop made his way to the U.S. Comparing himself to the wandering scholars of the Middle Ages, he went from the Wilberforce University high school in Ohio to the University of Chicago, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and then on to complete his studies for a British medical license at Edinburgh...
...body has ever been the subject of such detailed and delicate detective work as the remains of the onetime fisherman, Simon, whom Jesus renamed Peter. For though, according to tradition and Roman Catholic doctrine, Peter was the first Bishop of Rome, from whom the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven have been handed down to the succession of Popes, no absolutely conclusive evidence of his presence in Rome has yet been found...
...modern Vanbrugh who tells the story, he is a nobody, but he has a spiv's eye for survival, the derisive eloquence of a shameless man and the bogus kind of face that, as he suggests, would go well on a butler or a bishop. As Author Linklater tells it in his savagely comic novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned...
...Bishop Pike (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Christ in Jeans, BBC's modern-dress filmed Passion play that roused British TViewers last year (TIME, April 14). Christ wears denims, the Virgin Mary looks like anybody...
...reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good Lord, deliver...