Word: cloaca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Translator Knox, son of a low church Anglican bishop, wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. At Eton he edited the school humorous magazine, The Outsider. At Oxford he was famed for his wit and for the huge, odorous tobacco pouch which won the nickname Cloaca Maxima (principal sewer of ancient Rome). After a few years as Anglican chaplain at Oxford's Trinity College, Knox was converted to Roman Catholicism, ordained to the priesthood. He returned to Oxford as Catholic chaplain, where he has continued to turn out books, witty poems, and anchovy toast for Sunday tea. Discussing...
...face of Fedor Dostoevski brooded one of the great analytical minds of literature. This "engineer of human souls," as Biographer Ernest Simmons calls him, graduated from a military engineering college in 1843, tunneled such depths into man's mind, spanned such cataracts of feeling, built such a monumental Cloaca Maxima of passionate drama that a contemporary critic said of Crime and Punishment that people with strong nerves became almost ill over the novel, and people with weak nerves were obliged to cease reading...