Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these men and women? Many of them come from the Midlands, from Yorkshire, Manchester and Birmingham, sporting their distinct regional accents like badges-it is no longer necessary to affect an Oxford accent to get ahead. Some of the new voices have a cockney lilt; from London's own working-class East End come Actors Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Playwrights Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, Television Magnate Lew Grade, Textilemen Joe Hyman and Nikki Seekers. Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert...
...changes all tunes. When Guy Chapman, a fledgling lawyer from the best of schools-Westminster and Oxford-marched off to war in 1915, his ragged battalion of London clerks, shopkeepers and dockers kept more or less in step to the bombastic brass of The British Grenadiers. Three years later, when, statistically, they were all dead, they marched better, but sang less nobly. Yet Chapman's battalion had earned the right to its cynical gallantry. In an introductory note to the reissue of his 1933 classic documentary of World War I, Chapman marks the score: "At the Armistice in November...
Socialization has immunized man against the wonder and mystery of existence, argues Oxford Theologian Ian Ramsey. "We are now sheltered from all the great crises of life. Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor." John Courtney Murray suggests that man has lost touch with the transcendent dimension in the transition from a rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?...
...becomes useful and intelligible." That is not to say that God is necessarily found in the depths of anxiety. "Rather we are in the region of our experience where God may be known, and so where the meaningful usage of this word can be found." To Ian Ramsey of Oxford, this area of ultimate concern offers what he calls "discernment situations"?events that can be the occasion for insight, for awareness of something beyond man. It is during these insight situations, Ramsey says, that the universe "comes alive, declares some transcendence, and to which we respond by ourselves coming...
...popular novel and at least eight nonfiction works have been written about the spy ring that Sorge operated in Japan between 1933 and 1941. This book, however, is the definitive one. Oxford Dons Deakin and Storry, who spent three years interviewing officials and studying a massive file of court transcripts and official documents, turned out a sound, scholarly underpinning for the story of Sorge's espionage activities...