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Busy as he was, Moyers managed to compile one of the best records in the journalism school's history, on the strength of it won a $3,000 Rotary International scholarship that enabled him to study ecclesiastical history at the University of Edinburgh for a year. John Baillie was dean of the divinity faculty at the time-and, by curious coincidence, it was Baillie's A Diary of Private Prayer that Lyndon Johnson picked up and read to his nurse just before going into surgery three weeks...
...year in Scotland, say friends, also buffed down Bill Meyers' Texas twang. After Edinburgh and a three-month, 12,000-mile tour of Western Europe, Moyers entered Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. However, long before he won his bachelor of divinity degree in 1959, he was beginning to worry that he and the church were mismatched. "I wanted to invest my talents in the broadest possible river," he says, "and I felt that journalism and public affairs were wider and faster flowing than the ministry." When he graduated, despite his conviction that the ministry...
...concerts last week at the Edinburgh Festival, he played Sibelius' Concerto in D Minor, followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. In the Sibelius piece, even the longest and most difficult runs executed at the highest speed had the clarity and order of a complex molecular structure. And as always, he seemed to toss it all off as if it were the easiest thing in the world. There is also something refreshing about his obvious delight in playing. Not for him is the agonized look that seems to be the accepted expression for most great violinists; instead...
...million children are in school, v. 14 million at independence, and though the nation is still only 24% literate, it is reading more, and from broader sources. When a group of young Indians educated abroad get together, the talk is less likely to be nostalgia about Oxford, Cambridge or Edinburgh than about memories of Columbia, Michigan or U.C.L.A. Even Indians who do not go abroad are reading more about the West than they did before. Yesterday's intellectual demigods were G. B. Shaw, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot; today's are Mary McCarthy and James Baldwin. Where...
Reaction to the princely philippic from Black Africa was equally sour. Murmured Kenya's External Affairs Minister Joseph Murumbi: "It is hard to imagine how the Duke of Edinburgh, who has never been exposed to the hard realities of colonialism, could speak authoritatively on Rhodesia." Added the East African Standard, for good measure: "Who does Prince Philip think he is-Prince Albert...