Geraint Gruffydd was a friend of Sheldon Vanauken at Oxford, and was mentioned in Vanauken's memoir A Severe Mercy.

However, as Vanauken or " Van " and his wife, Jean Davis or " Davy ," explore Christianity and are gradually converted, the primacy of their love for one another comes into question for both of them — though Vanauken's conversion is somewhat slower and more reluctant.

A Severe Mercy is undoubtedly Vanauken's best known and most successful book.

Vanauken's only novel, Gateway to Heaven, was published by Harper & Row in 1980.

The 1985 sequel, Under the Mercy, spans many years after the death of Vanauken's wife, years during which he first fell away from " the obedience " and then returned and eventually converted to Catholicism.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 1933 ) the term " carol " was first used in England for this type of circle dance accompanied by singing in manuscripts dating to as early as 1300.

On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.

A current draft Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gives only the derivation penta + culum, and defines it as a pentagram, especially enclosed in a circle ; a talisman inscribed with such a shape ; or any similar magic symbol ; pentacle and the Middle French pentacol are considered separate and unrelated words.

Helena particularly enjoyed solving mathematical problems and reading philosophy: during their tragically brief marriage, Prince Leopold proudly introduced his wife to the circle of academics he'd befriended at Oxford University.

Rodd was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was associated with the circle of Oscar Wilde.

Pater was now at the centre of a small but gifted circle in Oxford – he had tutored Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1866 and the two remained friends till September 1879 when Hopkins left Oxford – and he was gaining respect in the London literary world and beyond, numbering some of the Pre-Raphaelites among his friends.

The later Ludwig Wittgenstein is ordinary language philosophy's most celebrated proponent outside the Oxford circle.

The later Ludwig Wittgenstein is ordinary language philosophy's most celebrated proponent outside the Oxford circle.

Reading was the most important point in the circle of fortresses round Oxford, which after a vain attempt at relief, surrendered to him on 26 April.

Meanwhile, Banbury, a most important point in the Oxford circle, and Basing House ( near Basingstoke ) were in danger of capture.

It consisted essentially in using Oxford as the centre of a circle and striking out radially at any favourable target — " manoeuvring about a fixed point ," as Napoleon called it.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 ( in which he argues, against a theory of the consent of the governed, in favour of a theory of the lack of explicit rebellion ; following a Popperian view on falsifiability, Pettit considers that as consent of the governed is always implicitly supposed, thus trapping the social contract in a vicious circle, it should be replaced by the lack of explicit rebellion.

Progressing rapidly to numerous collaborations on films at Cinecittà, his circle of professional acquaintances widened to include novelist Vitaliano Brancati and scriptwriter Piero Tellini.

The paintings from this arrangement were thus different from his previous depictions of friends and lovers in that they were funded by Zborowski either for his own collection, as a favor to his friend, or with an eye to their " commercial potential ", rather than originating from the artist's personal circle of acquaintances.

His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances, and his delight in the technical handling of meter.

James's correspondents included celebrated contemporaries like Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, along with many others in his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

Elgar dedicated the piece to " my friends pictured within ", each variation being an affectionate portrayal of one of his circle of close acquaintances.

Ma Tint Tint was active in the YWCA and on hearing that Narayanan was a student of Laski, approached him to speak on political freedom before her circle of acquaintances.

His circle of friends and acquaintances included Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Stow, John Dee, Jacques de Thou and Ben Jonson, who was Camden's student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition of Every Man in His Humour to him.

Outgoing and social, he possessed a large circle of friends and acquaintances, many of whom became clients.

::( 1 ) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered ; or

In the United Kingdom, social status has historically been linked less directly to wealth than in the United States, and has also been judged by pointers such as accent, manners, place of education, occupation and the class of a person's family, circle of friends and acquaintances.

Notwithstanding his prodigious financial accomplishments, Killam was a very reserved man who eschewed publicity and was virtually unknown outside a small circle of close acquaintances.

The then leader of the main American Trotskyist party, Joseph Hansen, was later accused by Trotsky's followers as being " a double agent of the FBI and the GPU " and of having assisted Mercader to penetrate Trotsky's inner circle of friends and acquaintances, an accusation Hansen denied.

In the mid-1970s, he acquired a Hasselblad medium-format camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including artists, composers, and socialites.

Joining Throckmorton's circle of close acquaintances during the second season ( September 1942 ) are Richard Q. Peavey ( Richard LeGrand ), the friendly neighborhood pharmacist, whose nasal-voiced delivery and famous catchphrase, " Well, now, I wouldn't say that!

Victor Hugo, during his exile in Jersey, took an interest in the language and numbered some Jèrriais writers among his circle of acquaintances and supporters.

He corresponded with a large circle of acquaintances, and a collection of his letters by Selmi appeared in Venice ( 2 vols., 1789 ); another by Ceruti in Modena ( 1885 ).

Jacques Attali then enlarged his circle of acquaintances to Raymond Barre, Jacques Delors, Philippe Séguin, Jean-Luc Lagardère, Antoine Riboud, Michel Serres, Coluche.

Many of the letters are notes extending to a few lines only, addressed to a wide circle of relations, friends, and acquaintances.

Despite the breakup, Steve Took's Horns had made a considerable impression on Took's circle of acquaintances.

However, the founders of Sanditon must create the town within their own circle of intimate acquaintances before it may be spread to the world.

Among his circle of acquaintances were the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, author Djuna Barnes ( to whom he was engaged ), and actor Charlie Chaplin.

Out in the World-Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970, edited by Millicent Dillon ( Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1985 ), contains a number of references to LaTouche, and his circle of friends and acquaintances.

* Military Meaning 2: A person who is accepted by a Special Forces or Airborne Infantry / Ranger platoon or team into their closed circle of trusted friends and acquaintances, and is included as an honorary member of the group – mostly during social gatherings however.

In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R. I. P.