Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OXFORD, England--Former President Richard M. Nixon told an English university audience yesterday that he has "not retired from life...
Suzanne Franks, a graduate of Oxford University, is studying at Harvard on a Kennedy Fellowship...
...monastery is run by the American congregation of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE), founded in 1865 in England by Richard Benson. This monastic order grew directly out of the Oxford movement, which wrested the control of the Anglican Church from the hands of the English State. Theologically, the movement sought to restore the practices of the church to their original condition, as they were long before the Reformation. In the jargon of the church, the monks are high church anglo-Catholics. That is, they use an elaborate ritual and they agree with the Roman Catholic Church...
...million four years ago to 1.5 million today. The reasons: generally low pay, few benefits, transportation difficulties, low status and the easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help in the U.S. from 1870 to 1920. "Cleaning women," he adds, "suffer from isolation and an atomization of work. They have none of the camaraderie that women in offices share...
Enter, stage right, A.L. Rowse. "If it is something about Elizabethen Age, you would do well to ask me" the retired Oxford don once wrote to a critic, and he was right. Volume after volume has testified to Rowse's intimacy with the 17th century. No sexual custom, no oddity of language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar...