Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ have mercy upon...
Though its curriculum has kept pace with other public schools, Christ's Hospital still gives a heavy dose of the classics. No matter how dull a boy is, he may stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each...
...traditions of Christ's Hospital, none has been more carefully guarded than the mission first set for it by Edward VI: after 400 years, the school can rightfully boast that it "has been practicing the democratic principles of admission which have only recently been applied to English education generally." Sang the Blues in St. Paul's last week...
...There is authority in the Episcopal Church but not authoritarianism. We have a dispersed rather than a centralized authority, having many elements . . . contributing by a process of mutual support, mutual checking, and redressing of errors or exaggerations to the many-sided fullness of the authority which Christ has committed to His church...
...identify the betrayer. The soldier's best friend, a pious carpenter (Alain Cuny), falsely confesses to the crime in order to put an end to slaughter. The soldier kills him and, in the act of killing the wrong man, is left impotent for further slaying. In the Christ-like figure of the carpenter who sacrifices himself to save another, Malaparte seems to be embodying his allegorical message of guilt and expiation...