Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look...
...after winning almost every attainable honor at Oxford, Knox, then only 24, became Anglican chaplain of Oxford's Trinity College. He seemed to be having a wonderful time-preaching, talking, and turning out books. But his soul was not at peace. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he later explained. In September 1917, after resigning his Oxford chaplaincy, he joined the Roman Catholic Church...
...less than a decade, he was back again at Oxford, as Catholic chaplain of the university. He held famous weekly teas in the huge, hotel-like Old Palace, where he stuffed undergraduates with good talk and anchovy toast. He became a cherished regular among the witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
...years at the University of London before his money ran out-and then got a job with a small publisher at $3 a week while studying nights at London's Working Men's College. Until his death in 1945, he worked as an editor of the Oxford University Press...
Died. Dr. William Teulon Swan ("Sonners") Stallybrass, 64, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University,* longtime Principal of Oxford's Brasenose College; in an accident when he stepped out of a moving train (he was almost blind); near Iver Station, Buckinghamshire, England...