One of my heros. I heard him speak at Oxford in 1979? Sadly he died in 2006. Here he is interviewed after he'd received the Templeton Prize in 2001.
Worse Than You Can Imagine
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As the great man's guest must produce his good stories or songs at the evening banquet, as the platform orator exhibits his telling facts at mid-day, so the journalist lies under the stern obligation of extemporizing his lucid views, leading ideas, and nutshell truths for the breakfast table.Cardinal J. H. Newman, Preface to The Idea of a University, 1852
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