Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unprepared. Adjustment is not easy. The academic background of former priests is usually limited to their seminary courses, which are dominated by theology and philosophy-not exactly an ideal preparation for a business career. Some are so inexperienced in the ways of the world that they show up for job interviews wearing sports shirts. A few are alcoholics. Many suffer from psychological problems-ranging from what they dub a "Judas complex" (a fear that they have betrayed Christ) to sexual hang-ups over celibacy† to lack of confidence. As a result, some ex-priests end up in jobs...
...most part, though, Catholics have become accustomed to the fact of ex-priests in their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
Making two unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Congress, in 1946 and 1948, he ran as a white supremacist. In his federal courtroom, he seemed at first to be living down to his background. In one case, Negro plaintiffs sought the right to look at county voting records; a higher court had already ordered that such requests be honored as a matter of course. The course, in Clayton's court, ran four years, and was potholed by rulings like the one requiring documents to be redrawn because...
Faculty Turncoats. The privilege of dealing intimately with top administrators can cause internal friction with host faculties; understandably, many professors harbor grudges against ambitious "faculty turncoats" in their own midst, not to mention outsiders. Perhaps because of his Air Force intelligence background, Janczewski has been the target of some suspicion at Penn, though Goddard insists: "He's definitely not a provost...
Rosenberg's camera records boredom (trucks rolling out in the dark and back home in the dusk), beauty (swatches of blue background sky with dusty greens and yellows splashed onto the screen in pleasing rhythms), and oppression (a slew of low-lying shots of guards' boots thumping on the ground...