Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forced by his retirement last week to yield the majestic appellation, Geoffrey Cantuar, that he used as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher deplored the fact that he was reverting to the mundane surname Fisher. "I wish I could have the use of 'Geoffrey, once by divine providence Archbishop of Canterbury and now, by the same divine providence, a bishop only and temporal peer,' " sighed he. "But that cannot be.'' It could not. Even as Dr. Fisher gazed nostalgically across the Thames at the Archiepiscopal Lambeth Palace that was no longer his home. Queen Elizabeth...
...final sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher told worshipers in high-vaulted St. Paul's Cathedral of the paradox that enabled Britain to survive the end of empire. "Because of its inherited and passionate belief in freedom," said he, "British imperialism had at its very heart a disbelief in the ultimate Tightness of imperialism. For that very reason, the empire could grow out of being an empire into being a commonwealth...
...Harvard scoring effort in the first home cricket match of the season was more or less evenly divided between Captain Derek Jarrett, Tony Cross, and Geoffrey Charwick. A re-match, scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled, but the two teams will meet again in New Haven Saturday...
...Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires of Oxbridge...
Perhaps the world's most dedicated mustache researcher is a man who does not have one: Major Geoffrey Peberdy, former British army psychiatrist now on the staff of Newcastle General Hospital. Writing in the Journal of Mental Science, he tells of his mental health study of 400 mustachioed applicants for officer training. He divided up the candidates by type of mustache: trimmed (short hairs over entire upper lip), bushy, toothbrush, hairline and divided. For trimmed, bushy, hairline and divided types, the "pass" rate was an average 23%-about the same as clean-shaven men. By astonishing contrast...