Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Department envisioned literature as chemists envision the elements--with the help of a periodic Table. By dividing literature into six historical periods, the department allowed itself to handle the canon of "great" writers categorically, utilizing the tools of history and social science as an approach...
...upon his personal history. In a country whose clergy were ofter accused of being allied with the aristocracy, Wyszynski always identified himself with the working man. He was born poor, son of a church organist and schoolteacher in the village of Zuzela near Bialystok. He earned a doctorate in Canon Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lublin, and became known as a "labor priest." He wrote several books on such subjects as unemployment and the rights of labor, was even beginning to act as counsel in labor disputes when, in 1939, the Nazis blitzed Poland...
...head of England's great Puritan, open mouth still drawn down in disapproval of a godless generation, glowered for a new master last week. Dr. Horace Wilkinson of Kettering, Northamptonshire, wondered what to do with a family heirloom left by his late father, Canon Horace Wilkinson, the pike-impaled head of Oliver Cromwell...
...second-rate actor named Samuel Russell, who sold it to a jeweler, who sold it (for ?230) to a syndicate, for public exhibition. In the early igih century Josiah Henry Wilkinson picked it up at the bargain price of ?100. It eventually came down through the family to the canon, who kept it at the foot of his bed, in a box on which his cat used to sleep, and showed the relic off to visitors as an effective conversation piece...
...really Cromwell's head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...