Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education: Christ Church, Oxford, where he won the presidency of the Oxford Union debating society, co-founded the university Conservative Club. In 1929, aged 25, was defeated by Socialist in a hopeless try for a Welsh mining-district seat, went on debating tour of 48 U.S. campuses, where he good-naturedly upbraided Americans for having pulled out of the Empire...
...broadsheets of superb invective, streams of immortal poetry, completed his titanic Les Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent Hugo-istic verse. Lord Byron, however, insisted on speaking English...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
...grey frame house in back of Christ Church lives a man whom some people call Father, others call Reverend, and most call just Red. This hearty and cheerful man is the Reverend Frederick B. Kellogg minister to students at Christ Church and a Princeton...
...18th century Swedish scientist and philosopher who professed to have received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. He believed that God Himself was the Divine Man, that through infinite love Man could become the image of his Creator. The Swedenborgian Church still claims 5,647 U.S. members...