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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wryness was his real profession; by the 1950s, when he was editing Punch, it was clear that Muggeridge was one of the saltiest essayists of his time. He went public on English television, as a panelist of dependable perversity. Then he surprised his audience with a book called Jesus Rediscovered (1969), and it became known that-contrariness to the contrary-he was a practicing Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Bad Humor | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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