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...plot is heavy with age, but British Novelist Anthony Thorne manages to lighten it with a summer-weight touch and a twist...
...Unfortunate Custom." The bishopric of Fulham began in the days of Charles I, when a lonely chaplain in charge of the small English community at Ghent asked the Bishop of London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...sudden sinking realization that you have lost your audience is an old story to lecturers in elementary psychology. Yet short of doing handstands on the platform, glowing in the dark, or making faces at the audience, little can ordinarily be done to lighten up the subject's long succession of polysyllabic terms. But the lectures which Professor Gordon Allport delivers in his pleasant, wry voice bypass the whole question by gearing theory in at every step with commonplace experience. "A theory lisn't a good theory if it doesn't work," he says, making it all sound not overly difficult...
...dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young, all primates that show any evidence of promise. . . ." The words were hardly out of his mouth before alarmed citizens were asking when the killing was supposed to start. Dr. Shapley gritted his teeth, explained that he was just trying to lighten a heavy subject...
Last week, Western's president and largest stockholder (45.7%), William A. Coulter, decided that the best way to lighten ship was to jump out himself. Seventyish, he wanted to retire from active management, anyway. Into his place went Terrell C. Drinkwater, 38, vice president of American Airlines...