Word: pope
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...fact, Chaucer ranks second to Shakespeare among the victims of bowdlerizing. The company is distinguished: Dryden, Pope, St. Augustine, Benjamin Franklin ("the leading native victim" of American bowdlerism), and, of course, Donne. "An easy test of what kind of college a student goes to," Perrin proposes, "is to quote the single line 'License my roving hands and let them go,' and see if his eyes light...
Lowell's soccer captain, Ted Voorhees, was another of yesterday's stars. He scored his team's first two goals in a rough game on Webster field. Hal Clark and Eric Pope added goals later as Lowell turned a close game into a runaway...
...sorts from Winston Churchill to Eleanor Roosevelt are flogged to the abattoirs. Despite some archness and excesses of language, Convert Muggeridge often succeeds in convincing. As he presents them, the Christian churches and their priests-especially the Anglicans "drivelling away their lives"-do not seem good enough, nor the Pope himself sufficiently papal, to minister to the spiritual needs of our bewildered world. The Muggeridgiad stays amusing withal; cap and bells are this prophet's hair shirt...
Died. Arthur Upham Pope, 88, the world's foremost authority on ancient Persian art and culture; of a heart attack; in Shiraz, Iran. Pope devoted his life to studying, lecturing and writing about the Persian civilization. In London in 1931, he organized the greatest exhibit of Persian art ever held. His massive six-volume Survey of Persian Art (1938) is still the definitive work in its field. "Turn back! Turn back!" he once cried. "Look to the ancients. Old Persia can save us-those remarkable people, with their gallantry, their decorum, their selfdiscipline, their sensitivity, their humanity, their productivity...
HADRIAN VII is Peter Luke's deft dramatization of Frederick Rolfe's book about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who in his fantasies becomes the second English Pope. Alec McCowen's performance has been called one of the major theatrical events of the decade...