Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice a year, at Easter and Christmas, the London Times turns over its leading editorial to religion. The editorial writer for the occasion is not a Timesman but an Anglican parson: 53-year-old Canon Spencer Leeson, who recently gave up the $16,000-a-year headmastership of illustrious Winchester College (prep school) to become a parish priest in one of Portsmouth's worst-blitzed areas. Said the Times leader...
Candida (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) has come to seem, with the years, almost as much Katharine Cornell's property as Bernard Shaw's. As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles. Last week she was playing it on Broadway for the fourth time, and playing it well. But the cast surrounding her was not the one whose brilliant teamwork made the previous revival, in 1942, a real event...
Candida's scalawag father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) was often amusing; the prissy Prossy (Mildred Natwick) almost always was. But though Marlon Brando got a measure of individuality into Marchbanks, Shaw's soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...
...comes as a shock that a segment of the public . . . [is] campaigning noisily against universal training. . . . Okay, mother. Okay, professor. Okay, parson. But are you willing to take the consequences, if you lead us into World...
...territory was named Rhodesia, in honor of the man who had planned its conquest. Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which...