Word: cassocked
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...world's youngest octogenarian." With his wigwagging ginger eyebrows, gaitered waddle and "rah-ther"-studded speech, Ramsey is a ripe continuation of England's tradition of clerical eccentrics. He is the type of man who finds mud puddles appearing mysteriously in his path; his bulky purple cassock always seems ever so slightly askew. No one laughs. For warmhearted, avuncular Archbishop Ramsey also exudes the wisdom of a scholar and a deep-rooted faith, and seems every inch what he is in fact if not in name: patriarch of his arm of Christendom...
...vicar's wife greeted him at the door, saying, "I'm afraid you can't see him now-he's expecting the bishop." A bit later he joined a quiet gathering attended by other bishops wearing black gaiters and aprons. Stockwood was resplendent in purple cassock and cape. "Ah, Mervyn," said one friend, "incognito, I see." Shortly after young Prince Charles, 14, was caught drinking cherry brandy in a hotel bar in Scotland last month, Bishop Stockwood was introduced to a parishioner's son at a sherry party on the lawn of a rather staid...
...enemy of social progress: "Since all my teachers were professed atheists, I considered myself to be one also." So long as he was striving for a Communist future, Lepp says, "I felt no need of God." He acquired degrees in medicine and philosophy (and even now, putting aside his cassock, practices psychotherapy). Lepp broke with the party after the Moscow trials of 1937, and eventually, a "metaphysical anxiety" drove him to question the meaning of life. In that psychological mood, he had his first encounter with the Christian message...
...African allies were re-examining their relations with Leopoldville. First to bury the hatchet was President Fulbert Youlou of the Congo Republic, formerly the French Congo, whose capital city of Brazzaville lies across the river from Leopoldville. Youlou, a nonpracticing Roman Catholic priest who stubbornly continues to wear his cassock, supported Tshombe's secession in 1960. But with Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five-day tour of the country with...
...maybe-to borrow a line from its own dialogue-"in more hot water than a washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood out like a High Mass in the Copacabana. But many of the new season's heroes are so strong on dynamic positivism that these men in black seem almost sinister by comparison...