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There is material more to the author's liking in the chapter on the new Catholicism of Cuernavaca, particularly as personified in Ivan Illich, the impresario of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC). A dispossessed Dalmatian nobleman with a brilliant and unlikely career in the arch diocese of New York behind him, Illich set up the school to "de-Yankee" the building-fund-oriented American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after...
...early 1944, Artillery Captain Fielding was transferred to the OSS and shipped to Italy, Algeria and Yugoslavia to do propaganda work behind enemy lines. After a narrow escape from an ambush on the Dalmatian coast, he was discharged as a major with a citation that credited him with arranging "more than 30,000 voluntary enemy surrenders." He returned to civilian life as a roving journalist, and as he roved, he discovered that no travel guide catered to his all-American life style...
...never tells me what he wants," says Sapone. "He leaves that entirely up to me. I search for special cloth in Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...
...continued to play for Dalmatian each year since. He flew to New York almost every weekend to join the team after the Harvard freshman season ended last year, and he plans to do the same at the close of this year's varsity competition...
...addition to playing for Dalmatian, Bogovich led his high school team to the city championship his junior and senior years, and was named to the all-state team as a senior...