Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranked high in presidential esteem. As director of the U.S. Information Agency, Scholar Larson was cut up by the long knives of politics on Capitol Hill (TIME, Oct. 28). But his credentials in the law area are hard to beat. A Rhodes scholar who took honors in jurisprudence at Oxford (B.S., M.A.). he rose from a Milwaukee practice to dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, was appointed Under Secretary of Labor because of his definitive books on fast-changing workmen's compensation laws and on the social security system. Ike read A Republican Looks at His Party...
Died. Percy Alfred Scholes, 81, British music critic and historian, witty, unorthodox, occasionally prissy lexicographer, who wrote the entire 1,195-page Oxford Companion to Music; in Switzerland. Most novels are duller than Dr. Scholes's reference book, in which harmony is "the clothing of melody" and "form is one of the composer's chief means of averting the boredom of his audience...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between...
...memory of the late scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
When Ambrose Usher first bubbled into print, London critics hooted happily that the model for the talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with...