Word: magdalene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clive Staples Lewis was engaged in his full-time and favorite job-the job of being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...
...other poems, apparently as light, readers may find themselves stirred before they know it by nothing more than the spoken clarity and intense local atmosphere of Betjeman's verses. Among his prose pieces are two in which Oxford (Betjeman went to Magdalen College, where his tutor was Author C. S. Lewis) gets the smoothest and most thorough panning of modern times...
From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...
England's modern John Bunyan is a wise, witty, sad-faced Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College named Clive Staples Lewis. Like the Inspired Tinker, Anglican Convert Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce) writes of the trials and troubles of man's soul in a sinful world; to dramatize his theology he peoples his stories with a menagerie of sprites, devils, and fabulous monsters. Lewis' latest: That Hideous Strength (Macmillan, $3), third volume of a trilogy* begun in 1943. It is loaded with enough spiritual wisdom for a dozen sermons...
Reluctant Believer. Red-cheeked, balding, Belfast-born, Clive Staples Lewis, 45, has been tutor and lecturer at Oxford's Magdalen College since 1925, teaches medieval English literature. His lectures are an Oxford rarity: they are jampacked. During World War I he served in France with the Somerset Light Infantry, was invalided home. His aunt, says he, was relieved to learn that the wound in his back came from a misdirected British shell, and was not an indication that he had been running away from the Germans...