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...This is nonsense. Blair's parents were not churchgoers. But John Rentoul, Blair's first biographer, pointed out years ago that Blair's faith had been noted by those around him since he was a small child. Blair "rediscovered" his Christianity, he told me, while a student at Oxford in the 1970s. He was part of an informal late-night wine-and-cigarettes discussion group led by Peter Thompson, a charismatic Australian student and Anglican priest then in his 30s. (Thompson, who now lives in Melbourne, does not talk about his relationship with Blair.) I went up to Oxford just...
America is now at its nadir, but we did not realize that even with your Watergate experience you could once more plumb such depths of mendacity and such hypocrisy. James Alexander Rentoul Howard Norman Oxford, England...
...Cemetery. Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will conduct the services, and the following will act as pallbearer: President C. W. Eliot '53, Professor W. W. Goodwin, Mr. E. King, Professor W. E. Byerly '71, Professor H. M. Clifford d.'86. Dr. J. T. G. Nichols '59, Mr. R. S. Rentoul, and Professor J. K. Paine...
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