Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is no mean event-for the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cosmo Gordon Lang, P.C., G.C.V.O., D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, is the senior prelate of the Anglican Church, which with its worldwide affiliates (including the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has 40,000,000 members. Spiritually, only the Pope has more followers. Temporally, Canterbury ranks among Britons next to the royal family, takes precedence over the Prime Minister. Even a King cannot safely defy him, for his opposition, making use of the Anglican stand against divorce, was a major factor...
...work for a few more years," he explained. "But the times are not ordinary. . . . When this war is over great tasks of reconstruction must await the Church as well as the State. Preparation for these tasks must begin now." In emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...
...Buck. Pearl Buck has a perception of human life and a prose style which combine most of the vices of the Lang, Leaf & Myers translation of The Iliad with some of the virtues of the Old Testament, Tolstoy, and the early Gertrude Stein. Her five senses are nearer the page than those of most authors. At her best she has a remarkable talent for telling a thing so that it seems not to be told about but actually to happen. Yet her narrative is never quite heroic and her superbly ordered peasant simplicities keep sieving-off into the remote beauties...
When the clock struck the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne. Then the people began to scatter, walking in pairs or groups past the gnarled skeletons of bombed-out houses. Most of them, men & women, were in uniform. They shouted "Happy New Year!" to strangers half seen in the dark, and they sang She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain. The Yankee tune, with its words Anglicized to Hi-yi, yippee, yippee-eye, was the latest craze...
John P. Kennedy Jr. '44, Robert L. Goel '44, Newbold R. Landon '42, Neunert F. Lang '44, Richard Lehman '44, Emil W. Lehmann '44, Melvern K. Leisy '44, Robert W. Levine '42, Walter S. Long Jr. '43, Robert A. McCleary '44, Wallace McDonald '44, George C. McElheny '42, Loren G. MacKinney '42, Arthur T. von Mehren '43, James G. Melrose '44, Roy McM. Millen '44, Frank G. Miller '43, Maynard M. Miller '43, Vern K. Miller '42, Kirby M. Milton...