Word: franciscan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attended three high schools and studied for a year at a Franciscan seminary, where his desire to become a priest eventually gave way before his love of women. By his senior year he was in Glen Ridge, N.J., where a knee injury dislodged him from the school wrestling team. He was miserable. Then he auditioned for the Nathan Detroit role in Guys and Dolls and got the part. "It was the first thing in my life for a long, long time that I felt excited about," Cruise says. He announced to his family that he was going...
...Candlestick Park, awaiting the start of the third game of the World Series. "I heard a low rumble, and my first thought was that the Giants fans were stamping their feet in unison," Wyss recalls. An instant later, the stands began rocking back and forth. A native San Franciscan, Wyss was sure an earthquake had struck. So was Griggs, who as TIME's Tokyo bureau chief in the 1960s had experienced a score of them...
...turmoil this week was "not the big one" expected along the San Andreas Fault, it certainly got people thinking. In the relatively earthquake-safe environs of Cambridge, more than a few students were seen asking what to do in case one hits. The definitive answer from one native San Franciscan: "Hang on to the doorframe and pray...
...silver-framed picture of their adopted son Alex, who was ten months old when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia last year. If Mickey too succumbs, they will consider adopting another child with AIDS. "I think we were called to take care of them," says Frank, a former Franciscan brother. "We know what it is like to go through the loss of a child, but we also know there is another baby out there...
...conservative Catholic educators, however, that is not enough. "A Catholic college should teach what the Catholic Church teaches is true," says Father Michael Scanlan, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. At Franciscan, that means scrutiny of on-campus lecturers and entertainers to ensure that they will not promote "immorality," and evaluation of faculty on the basis of their commitment to Catholic values. The doctrinaire approach has proved to be one of the school's main attractions. Franciscan was about to close when Scanlan assumed office in 1974 but this year took in its biggest entering class ever...