Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though there weren't enough plays to go around. Even if, as during this season, it is found feasible to present four instead of three plays, the Shakespearean canon is still sufficiently large. Can we not stand even Shakespeare's lesser works at least once a decade...
Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...what you accuse me of being.' " Having pleasantly confessed to whatever musical eccentricities his audience had already convicted him of, Partch sat down at Harmonic Canon II and began to play, aided by a disciple who had flown down from Tacoma, Wash., for the occasion. "You exclamation-point Jim," Partch chanted to the rhythm of the Surrogate Kithara's ponderous clucks, "get your semicolon asterisk out o this yard." It was music the likes of which few in the audience had heard before, but it forced upon everyone in the Palace a new and respectful opinion of Harry...
...Pope Paul's first public address, delivered in Latin before the assembled cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. There he paid tribute to his predecessor and announced that his pontificate would be devoted to the completion of the great churchly tasks John began: the Vatican Council, the revision of canon law, "the prosecution of efforts, following the lines set by the great social encyclicals of our predecessors, for the consolidation of justice in civil, social and international life...
...West End's most-called girl; John Profumo, 48, the able War Minister and man-about-Mayfair, whose virile charm proved something of a Tory asset after those homosexual spy scandals; and Dr. Stephen Ward, 43, a socialite osteopath (and son of the Anglican canon of Rochester Cathedral), who said he liked helping attractive girls of humble birth adapt to "the needs and stresses of modern living...