Word: forster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cyril Forster Garbett, visiting Archbishop of York (TIME, April 17), explained to Washington newspapermen the difference between his title, Primate of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's. Said he: "It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury is Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York is Primate of England-not all England, mind you, just England. . . . Once, in the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived first at a meeting and proceeded to take the head chair. Then the Archbishop of York arrived. Not to be outdone, he sat on the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Passion and Resurrection. When, under cover of wartime secrecy, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, slipped across the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. (it was his first visit), there was no Protestant churchman who could have impressed Americans more. For the Archbishop was a symbol of one great Protestant church which, under the impact of war, had suffered a passion and predicated a resurrection...
...Cyril Forster Garbett (rhymes with carpet) was born (1875) in the little Hampshire parish of Tongham, which served the military camp Queen Victoria had recently established at Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England...
When France fell, many of Gide's attackers showed up on the Nazi side. Ardently anti-Nazi, Gide continued to needle his enemies in articles for the Paris Figaro. Said Britain's Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) last year: "He has remained an individualist in an age which imposes discipline. ... It seemed to us, as we listened to Gide, that here was a light which the darkness could...
...Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with E. M. Forster's A Passage to India...