Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high point of the meeting was the Communion service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher...
...anything, hearty Geoffrey Fisher seemed relieved at having one less official affair to sit through. On a quick tour of the Far East, he had plenty to do in Japan. He wanted to visit Kobe to consecrate St. Michael's Cathedral and see various Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. What did he most want to see in Japan? Replied Fisher: "What I most wanted to see was Bishop Michael Hinsuke Yashiro [Japan's Anglican Presiding Bishop]-and I am very happy to have seen...
...three major weaknesses. One was motive. Under Mrs. Morell's will Dr. Adams got a case of silver, worth no more than $761-hardly a sufficient incentive for murder. The second weakness was heavy reliance on three nurses, who gave testimony damaging to Dr. Adams; brilliant Defense Counsel Geoffrey Lawrence produced the actual sickroom records kept by the nurses, and the discrepancy between what they remembered six years later and what they had actually written down at the time rendered their evidence absurd. Finally, there was the medical mystery of the human constitution: were the injections excessive or were...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
...belated bow to 20th century custom, the Church of England Assembly voted to institute a 24-hour information service, thus spare the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, who democratically answers his own phone at Lambeth Palace even in countless wee-hours calls. "When the telephone rings at midnight," asked one assembly delegate, "is it resented as an intrusion on one's sleep or welcomed as an opportunity to spread the Gospel?" Said the Archbishop forthrightly: "At Lambeth it is resented...