And for our Sunday enjoyment we had our pastor, Father George B. Ford, a famous liberal priest of the period, who tried to speak elegantly for his largely Columbia U congregation and always wound up flat on his back. 'It blesseth him who gives and it likewise blesses the recipient' was his version of Portia; it could never be said that Father Ford didn't swing for the fences. But through the garble beamed an effulgent decency. Father Malaprop was a big influence on Thomas Merton and other intellectuals who had the wit to see through the density of his verbiage. (en)
