Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resplendent in pink robe and home-made cardboard crown, Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God and presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, urged a crowd of 150 undergraduates "to be as daring spiritually as you are intellectually." But, before Tomlinson could win many converts, three University police hustled him to a Lamont office...
After seating himself on his portable aluminum throne ("not ivory, like Solomon's but something even Solomon couldn't get"), Tomlinson told his audience that he had 153 million followers who wanted "peace on earth...
Since he received only three million votes in the last election, Tomlinson said he was turning to the youth of America to further the principles of the Theocratic party--union of Church and State, elimination of war, and prohibition of drinking, smoking, and gambling...
...history, including Cecil Rhodes, an empire builder for whose financial chicanery and ''Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, self-styled "King of the World," whose self-coronation in Dar-es-Salaam. Tanganyika, with the aid of a plastic terrestrial globe, was witnessed by an awed Waugh-the fictioneer outdone by the actually absurd...
...Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) wrote only a handful of works in his 36 years, but at the time of his death, shortly after the Boston Symphony gave the premiere of his Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, he was already regarded as a daring and promising talent. A teacher all his life (at New York's Hackley School for boys'), he began composing under French impressionist influence, became fascinated by Javanese music, and incorporated the Oriental influence in such five-and six-notescale works as In a Myrtle Shade and Wai Kiki. His talent, as shown in recordings...