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...Clive Staples) Lewis is a High Anglican Lorelei in the gown of a Cambridge don. The author of The Screwtape Letters lures not to shipwreck but salvation, and many a troubled 20th century secularist who came to scoff at Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Convert | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Thus the squib on Fine Arts 13 may read: Full personal introduction to arts and sciences performed by Fowie, Coolidge, and Clive Inc.--Darkness at Noon...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Course Nicknames Might Replace Numbers As Catalog Merges With Confidential Guide | 1/20/1956 | See Source »

After Mrs. Gaynor's lecture at P.B.H. a week ago, students were warned by Clive Grey, vice president of the National Student Association, that she was publicizing a Communist cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecturer Seeks Return Engagement In Drive to Publicize Red Festivals | 11/30/1955 | See Source »

...kind of verbal magic that seems today beyond O'Hara's means. In fact, O'Hara's entire account of the "aristocratic" Joe Chapin and his existence at No. 10 North Frederick is a remorselessly endless annotation of an epitaph to that depressing character called Clive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Member of the Funeral | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

What I like about Clive Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Member of the Funeral | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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