Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...recession (the Government economists preferred to call it a downturn) is the mildest since World War II, has been going on for six months, and stems in large part from the economy's failure to emerge strongly enough from the 1957-58 recession. "In no case," said Geoffrey Moore of the National Bureau of Economic Research, "is the contraction as widespread as it eventually became...
...black limousine flying the Union Jack swept past the colonnaded grandeur of the Piazza. San Pietro and into a Vatican courtyard. Out stepped the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Escorted by the black-clad Chamberlain of Cape and Sword, the Archbishop strode by colorful Swiss Guards armed with halberds and entered the papal apartments. "Your Holiness, we are making history," said the Archbishop to Pope John XXIII. For an hour, alone except for an interpreter, the two churchmen spoke of matters temporal and spiritual...
...prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief prayer. He also knelt before the two other altars in the three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will climax this week in Rome in a "Christian summit meeting" with Pope John XXIII, the first meeting...
...arts of poetry and music," while France's Janopoulo confesses to lacking the "special soul and the kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England's Geoffrey Parsons and Martin Isepp, Germany's Hertha Klust and Gerhard Weissenborn, Italy's Antonio Beltrami...
...exactly a pajama game. As Mark Twain and Rodgers & Hart had done with Connecticut Yankee, one method would have been to mock the legend with pure comedy. Others have played it straight an impressive list that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...