Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American cat of any age or gender enjoys semisacrosanct status approaching that of the holy cow in India. There are some 25 million pet felines in the U.S.; their care and feeding cost up to $1.8 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget of Brazil. Yet, deep in the American psyche, there is evidently a bristling resentment of Felis domestica. This has erupted in a litter of books that celebrate a new and fast-growing cult of ailurophobia (hatred or fear of cats...
...next superior general is a man in his own mold, while liberals look for a successor who will further open the order to change. Yet both see the present discord as the sort of storm that Ignatius Loyola regarded as useful. Says Father Thomas Cullen, an American missionary in Brazil: "There is always going to be tension within the Jesuits between the sacred and the secular...
...another dose of network gruel, the weird piece of machinery across the way is pulling down programs from at least three pay-TV companies. Plus "feeds" from network correspondents hours before the evening news gets on the air. Plus NASA transmissions of pictures from Saturn. Plus soccer from Brazil. Plus the glorious miscellany of perhaps 50 to 60 programs a day, from closed-circuit prizefights to S.R.O. symphony concerts that are beamed off whichever satellite is being tuned...
Reagan was publicly cryptic. Reporters pressed him during a brief photo session about where he would find money for the military. Said he: "Well, we sure can't go to Brazil." White House aides were quick to emphasize that no strategic policy or weapon would be rejected solely because of cost. Said Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III: "The President is not going to say, 'This system is necessary but we can't afford it.' " But in the running battle between those aides who see the Reagan mandate as economic recovery and those...
...evil friend of oppressive regimes and the wealthy elite, has been siding more and more with the poor for the past 15 years or so. Missionaries, the Maryknollers and Jesuits in particular, sometimes become the most radical and best-trained organizers. Declares Richard Ouellette, a Maryknoll missionary in Brazil: "We've turned tradition on its head. It used to be God's will to accept the suffering. Now it's God's will to denounce suffering...