Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The CRIMSON editorial on Cardinal Cushing's impassioned statement at the Police Ball tried hard to be perceptive, but it certainly missed the delightful humor in the event and in its aftermath.
The first reports were word-of-mouth and then in the papers. (The Globe story was wonderfully sensationalized, and the Cardinal's text came then as a let-down; another paper, I am told, took liberties with the text.) They left me wishing Gilbert and Sullivan belonged to our generation...
But the text of Cardinal Cushing's prepared remarks had a wisdom, at once comendable and too-limited, which opened the way to events for our more subtle senusement. His remarks were commendable (if one who known infinitely less about Boston may be allowed to comment) in that they restored...
The subtler amusement derives from the reactions of the other wonderful person ages in the perennial Boston drama: Protestant and liberal spokesmen. For in this act, the Catholic Cardinal took the lines on liberality, conscience as against law, and warm tolerance; the Protestant and the liberal joined in the moral...
Cardinal Cushing perhaps erred in judgment in speaking only of the immediate morale of the force and not also of the larger question of political corruption in Boston; some of his words--like "betrayal"--may have smacked too much to non-Boston-Irish of local pride; but he showed his...