Word: magdalene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Orthodox priest and elders of the Turkish town of Lycovrissi found it easy, a year ahead of time, to fill most of the parts in their Passion play. A coarse-faced wife-beater was picked to play Judas. The role of Mary Magdalen fell to the village prostitute. Plain men of good will were chosen for the Apostles, and it was finally agreed that a fresh-faced young peasant named Manolios was best fitted to play the part of Christ...
...mind on his coming role. Manolios, the Christus, is the first to find his mind divided. He lifts his thoughts to sacred things, but his fiancee, panting for marriage, keeps bringing him back to the earthy. Manolios retreats to a mountain and meditates, only to find the Lycovrissi Magdalen dancing through his dreams...
...Taeusch of Ohio's little (1,000 students) College of Wooster, the new history instructor seemed just about perfect. He was a suave, scholarly Briton named Robert Peters. He had an impressive Oxford accent and an even more impressive array of credentials. A letter from Oxford's Magdalen College stated that he had an M.A. He apparently had another master's degree from the University of Adelaide in Australia. His specialty was medieval church history...
...students are: Stephen M. Cohen 2G of Conant Hall and Long Beach, N.Y., to study at Magdalen College, Oxford University; Edward I. Fry 3G of 401 Broadway, Cambridge, and Conroe, Tex., to study at Auckland University College, New Zealand; and Clarence W. Kerr of 15 Mt. Auburn St. and Glendale Calif., to study at Warburg Institute, London University...
...hand, but "my very dear friend who carefully wrote down her commentary," Stacey dolefully announced, "took . . . um ... a different route." Some of the star guides were also missing. Undergraduate Miles Jebb, son of the U.N.'s Sir Gladwyn, did not show up to conduct the tour through Magdalen College ("He's so tired of being his father's son"). Nor did the Hon. Antonia Pakenham, whose bailiwick was Lady Margaret Hall ("She had her parents down yesterday...