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Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon--who is second only to Queen Elizabeth II in the Church of England--delivered a sermon entitled "How Awful Is This Place!" before a packed church...
...sermon was held on the Church's annual visitation day--when the University host members of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Memorial Church. The Archbishop, who also lectured at Harvard's tercentenary celebration in 1986, is a member of the visitation committee...
...Archbishop's full title--the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, 102nd Archbishop of Cantebury, High Steward of the University of Cambridge--beat out even Gomes' for the distinction of the longest moniker. On a sign outside the church, the theme of his sermon had to be squeezed to make room for the Archbishop's titles...
Despite his sermon's title, the Archbishop also discussed some of Harvard's advantages, citing the University as a vital, if traditional, center for the worship of ideas. Discoveries at Harvard have led to the splitting of the atom, the development of new wonder drugs and the overturning of old ideas...
...renderings of a black preacher's rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Mosley, the son of a black maintenance supervisor and a white Jewish mother, has, like Ellison, a nuanced appreciation for black-white relationships that goes beyond the stereotypes that mar much recent fiction by black authors. Gone Fishin', of course, is not in Invisible Man's league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley...