Word: informativeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founder Loyola, the Society's first Superior General, developed such methods of discipline as encouraging Jesuits to inform on one another out of high motives, to travel always in pairs, to drink beer with beer drinkers. Of women he said: "Conduct religious conversations only with aristocratic women, and never with the door shut." More than any other Catholic fathers, the Jesuits are at home in the drawing rooms of the rich and great. But the order forbids its members to accept ecclesiastical honors, keeps them quietly and efficiently on the move, their minds sharp, their spirits obedient, their black...
...proper size for an army, the extent to which we should participate in the war, and the direction of our diplomacy are not to be solved merely by urging youth to stop disbelieving in ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system...
...Harvard, and he will tell you that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly...
First indication that the Government had decided to clean out Nazi agitators, Communist revolutionaries, fomenters of continental unrest and political troublemakers in general came when Secretary of Interior Ignacio Garcia Téllez called a meeting of Mexican publishers and editors to inform them that Mexico's foreign policy was strictly pro-Allies, pro-U. S. To emphasize publicly that his sympathies were with the democracies, President General Lázaro Cardenas sent a telegram to France's President Albert Lebrun expressing the "painful impression" created by the Italian declaration...
...Virgilia Peterson Ross) documents the perplexity. A young woman from Manhattan who married a Polish aristocrat, Princess Sapieha (pronounced Sa-pee-ayz-ha) lived for six years in Poland and escaped last September under the wings of German bombers. She has written her book for her two children to inform them of the society into which they were born and which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom of her husband's country oppressed her; the rigid social etiquette and slack business habits...