Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish. It's not that Harvard is so evil, of course--it's just that Georgetown, Fordham, Holy Cross, St. John...
...because if there is anything Ignatius hates more than an Ivy League professor it is a Jesuit professor. Jesuits--an order of priests that spends much of its time being intellectual and professorial, or sometimes political, like Fathers Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying...
...familiar riddle at Notre Dame runs, "What is the difference between God and Father Hesburgh [May 2]?" The answer is "God is everywhere; Father Hesburgh is everywhere but Notre Dame." Though some students here are quick to assert that Father Hesburgh's abundant activity elsewhere denotes a lack of concern over what happens at Notre Dame, the vast majority feel as I do: that Hesburgh merely is the main proponent of the activist philosophy that epitomizes the campus in general...
...Notre Dame...
Died. Joan Crawford, seventyish, strong-willed actress who rose from cho rus girl to grande dame of the screen; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS...