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...little consequence, however, if this legend is nipped now. For every one exaggeration about Nock there are three varieties more unique...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

This anecdote, with minor variations, crops up whenever undergraduates swap professorial idiosyncrasies. Arthur Darbv Nock likes the story with but one reservation: it isn't true...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

...foremost authority on religion, murder mysteries, and shaggy dog stories, Nock is a professor in the noble and vanishing tradition. He is brilliant, kind, and studiously eccentric...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

...seen him fend off oncoming traffic along Mount Auburn can forget the picture of a dignified gentleman extending his umbrella like a rapier, challenging the automobile to ducl. The season is unimportant; Nock carries his umbrella on the clearest...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

...write off Nock as only a character would be to slight the real man. John Finley, Master of Eliot House, calls him a "walking bibliography," and "the T. S. Eliot of scholars." Nock's list of publications, degrees, and honors is even longer than the ever growing string of personal anecdotes about...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

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