Word: oxford
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...time and space. Because of their association with "the manifestation of God's divine being," says Roman Catholic Theologian Joerg Splett of Germany, ancient shrines can properly be revered as symbols of "where God's holiness touches man's soul." Adds Anglican Theologian Henry Chadwick of Oxford: "A place is not in itself holy, but by its association through history...
...UNFINISHED REVOLUTION (1917-1967) by Isaac Deutscher. 115 pages. Oxford University...
Last week, however, even old city hall hands were blinking a bit as the 1967 mayoralty campaign got under way. No fewer than 23 candidates showed at the elections department to pick up filing papers for a Sept. 26 preliminary run off, including an Oxford-educated Brahmin, a mother of six, a blind man, a city councilman named lannella and an ex-con named lannello, a man named Mines and another named Hynes. There were also three Collinses, including Boston Globe Columnist Bud Collins, who cracked: "There may be more voters in the race than out by the time everybody...
Harvard University has not fielded a national championship team in football since 1919. It has never won even an Ivy League title in basketball, and its tiddlywinks team is 0-for-one against Oxford. So the record of the Crimson crew is somewhat irregular. No college crew has beaten Harvard's varsity in more than four years, and nobody at all has beaten this year's crew...
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy endanger the lives of their unborn children. This is the finding of Oxford University Pediatrician-Professor Neville R. Butler and Martin Feldstein, an American economist at Oxford, who compared the statistics on 617 stillbirths and neonatal (within four weeks of birth) deaths with those of 16,377 live births that occurred in Britain in the first week of March 1958. The results: pregnant women who are moderate smokers (one to nine cigarettes a day) are 20.8% more likely than the average of all pregnant women to bear dead babies or babies who die soon...