Word: noblemen
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Charmed Circle. Founded 523 years ago this week by the worldly divine, Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, All Souls was set up for "poor and indigent clerks" to pray in perpetuity for the souls of noblemen "drenched with the bowl of bitter death" during England's ruinous wars against France. Not much perpetual praying is done any more; rather the college is in purpose much like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which in fact was modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county...
...many-columned courtroom where Powers was brought to trial after 108 days in solitary confinement had seen history made before: in the days when it was still the Noblemen's Club. Pushkin and Tolstoy relaxed there, later the bodies of Lenin and Stalin lay there in state. But Powers seemed unmindful of history, and the faraway cities of which he talked were apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade...