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Hansen will study Christian ethics next fall at Oxford, strolling the same courtyards that Lewis once strolled. There he will wrestle not only with the immediate question of his own future--he has considered ministry, politics and law as possible careers--but also eternal questions of truth...
Benson, contacted last week at Oxford, tookserious issue with Witzel's remarks and said thata "whole bunch of us had documented them andgotten the University to force him to retractthem...
...problems with the "old people" at the reading as well as Will Self's choice of beverage, but apparently she assumes one must possess some sort of British "roaring boy" background to fully comprehend Amis' work: "Amis hasn't made any waves on this side of the Atlantic...At Oxford, Amis is a normal topic of discussion." That statement is a firm justification for doing away with those semester-abroad programs. The pompous and presumptuous Hagar had just the perfect amount of self-righteousness and awe of the crown to be an absurd satire in an Amis novel. John Burke...
DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England...
...former Oxford roaring boy is certainly a big name among the American literati, (securing an interview with him proved impossible) but he hasn't made the impression on popular culture that he has in Britain...