Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the commission called for the church officers to resign, the congregation gave the officers a vote of confidence. Said Journalism Professor Phillips Russell: "The report gives the impression (and this is said with due reverence) that if Jesus Christ were found occupying the pulpit here. He might be ousted on the ground that, although a Christian, He could not be called a Presbyterian...
...them to class. At other times he became Mr. Lewis Carroll, the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and had a passion for kittens and children. Last week a Welsh professor reported some curious evidence about a third Mr. Dodgson-the curator of the Christ Church Senior Common Room...
...professor, Economist Duncan Black, happened to be investigating Mathematician Dodgson's theories in a political field-proportional representation. One day, in a cupboard of the Christ Church treasury, he came across "row upon row of green clothbound boxes, all neatly packed with envelopes." Inside were the meticulous records of Dodgson's entire ten-year curatorship. Apparently, not one of them had been opened since the day he retired...
Take It Back. Being only human, Dodgson did make a mistake or two. Once, after a series of mathematical calculations, he boosted a cellar temperature from 50° to 60°, only to find that his claret began ripening far ahead of schedule and that it was all Christ Church men could do to drink it up in time. But otherwise, Mr. Dodgson was a paragon of scrupulous management, and once when a local merchant tried to ingratiate himself by sending a Christmas gift of fruit, he huffily sent it back. "Mr. Dodgson would have thought it hardly necessary...
...expressionist outpourings of violent emotion and surrealist fantasies. Goya's Majo is a mysterious dandy painted in a style of courtly elegance. His expressionist St. Peter Repentant, roughly and swiftly constructed of broad brushstrokes, is a rocklike old man in an agony of remorse after thrice betraying Christ. In his besieged City on a Rock, the master turns surrealist and dreamlike, and in the sky a flight of tiny birdmen zoon like fantastic fighter planes...