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More than 30 student veterans found a carte blanche from the U.S. Treasury in their mail boxes yesterday, but the pass-key to Fort Knox turned out to be only an illusion...
...connection with local history does not end there, either. His mother, a direct descendant of John Knox, is also related to General Gage, of Continental Army fame...
...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
Reader Talbot's complaint should have been directed to Msgr. Knox. Sample passage from The Mass in Slow Motion: "When there are priests in choir, you know, they are supposed to mumble all this part of the Mass to one another while the priest is getting through it at the altar...
Monsignor Knox, a longtime Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, has lately been practicing what he calls "a highly specialized art form, that of sermons to schoolgirls." His detailed close-up of Catholicism's chief ceremony is a set of these sermons, starting with the assurance: "The Mass is really a kind of religious dance." Sample Knoxisms...