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Breyer earned undergraduate degrees from Stanford University and Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated from Harvard Law School, then taught there and at the Kennedy School of Government. From 1980 to 1994, he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. In 1994, he was appointed associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by then-President Bill Clinton...
Ferguson went to school at Magdalen College in Oxford, the same college where the famous historian A.J.P. Taylor—whose work Ferguson confessed in The Times of London to having “read too much” of as a teenager—was a fellow for 38 years...
While a graduate student at Magdalen and then a fellow at Oxford’s Jesus College, Ferguson supplemented his study of history—and his meager scholar’s income—with freelance journalism...
With advising from Nicholi, filming took place in Oxford, England, where Lewis was a professor at Magdalen College in Oxford University, and at a pub where Lewis met with the Inklings—a group of colleagues including J. R.R. Tolkien, one of Lewis’ closest friends...
...that underlies appearances. El Greco's work, with its distortions for emotional effect and etiolated figures hovering in nonphysical space, reflects this. He even deforms eyes, and may have invented the ecstatic upward glance with a liquid highlight that can be seen on the strangely conical eyeballs of Mary Magdalen in Penitence (early 1580s). Not just a saint, she is also a symbol of repentance: a state of mind the church wished to encourage in its followers...