Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford knows it has a vice-chancellor, and that the vice-chancellor runs the University,* but few can tell his name. Ask an unsuspecting undergraduate who Sir Richard Livingstone is and the chances are he will murmur something about Stanley in Africa. Last week, as Oxford slumbered in the "long vac" and Sir Richard hied himself to Ireland for a holiday, the Atlantic Monthly gave its U.S. readers (who know him even less than Oxonians do) a chance to meet one of education's most articulate thinkers...
This Hellenic salt and Christian pepper have seasoned all of Sir Richard's life & thought. Son of an Anglican canon, a classics don since his Oxford graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
Plato with Honey. Most undergraduates have few dealings with the-vice-chancellor-from the moment he matriculates them at the start of their university careers until, some three years later, he drones out a Latin benediction, bangs them on the head, and hands them their degrees. But those "up at Bodders" (i.e., studying at Oxford's Corpus Christi College, where he is president) occasionally breakfast with Sir Richard and Lady Livingstone at their baronial lodge. While his listeners polish off jars of honey (he keeps hives because he likes honey and because bees are so important in classical literature...
...Chancellor under Renner is Leopold Figl, of the Catholic Volkspartei (People's Party). The party is the direct descendant of Dollfuss' and Schuschnigg's Christian Socialists, though it now favors (still a little halfheartedly) nationalization of key industries and has been purged (at least officially) of fascists. Despite public political friendship, Figl does not get on well with Renner. Unlike Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along...
...British Communists' request for affiliation with the Labor Party, the delegates gave a resounding no (the ratio: 6-to-1). Bronzed, scholarly Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton summed up the Laborite attitude in a preconference rally speech: "We are not going to be mucked about by that lot any more...