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At that first lunch he talked mostly about his past. It was as good a way as any to introduce himself and his qualifications to head the great library (the country's second largest after the Library of Congress) and its 82 branches around the city. As for intellectual credentials...
Pre-Vatican Council, aspiring Jesuits moved through 15 years of training in lockstep. Healy spent four years studying theology at Belgium's Louvain University. Seven years later he went abroad again, in pursuit of a Ph.D. at Oxford, and if there is an invisible monastery in his life, a spiritual...
Several strands that extend through Healy's life thrived at Oxford: his deep love of poetry, his passion for teaching, his enthusiasm for young people. Despite his heavy administrative and fund-raising load at Georgetown, he always taught classes, including a popular course on Eliot and Donne ("Kids love him...
There are times when Healy has something on his mind that cannot be shared by either teaching or example. Then he is apt to write a column for his old friend Meg Greenfield, editorial-page editor of the Washington Post. Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles...
-- John Donne, 1612