Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHESTERTON...
Roman Catholic G.K. Chesterton imagines the fine Catholic realm that might have sprung forth had Mary Queen of Scots married Don John of Austria, the illegitimate brother of Philip II of Spain. Such history tinkering, though, can go on forever. Suppose Don John and Mary had established a Catholic England. Would cross-Channel Calvinism have undermined it eventually? Suppose Luther had been unable to find a nail in Wittenberg for all those theses. Or better, suppose Guedalla's Boabdil had crossed the Pyrenees and swept through France, creating a Moorish Europe. Might there be mosques in Manchester today...
...stop our crazy progression from clue to clue, is an icy cynicism. The detective's ultimate values are never really cynical--if they were he'd be the criminal and not the detective, whether he's Margaret Rutherford playing Agatha Christie's insufferable Miss Marples or Alec Guinness playing Chesterton's quaint Father Brown or Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade explaining, after Miles Archer's murder, that you have a duty to your partner...
...Chesterton...
...suggestion that he become my dealer, not mine.") He is a music lover who each year organizes a Louis Armstrong memorial at the law school. The Texas-born scholar, who still has his drawl, also plays the trumpet and "a pretty good cowboy harmonica." A lifelong devotee of Chesterton's joy at being in the wrong place, Black began his scholarly career as a Greek major at the University of Texas. Why Greek? "My guess is that it was to be dramatic," he says now. "When people asked you and you told them, that sort of stopped the conversation...