Word: mavor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young poet and the outwardly magnificent minister is almost too well-known to bear retelling. Candida is forced to choose between her husband, a complacent and fabulously successful preacher, and David Marchbanks, a sensitive and pathetic boy of eighteen who "understands" her, And paradoxically it is the Reverend James Mavor Morell who wins out, because he is weaker in hid magnificent external strength than Marchbanks, who clings to his loneliness and misery as a retreat form a world where you have to decide how much to tip the cabby and haggle with greengrocers...