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...complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator. Price's hero is Hugh Barbour, a classicist who escapes from his academic hide-hole into a job interrogating Greek prisoners for the British army in Cyprus. For three years he sets his conscience aside, "breaking his subjects" with the inquisitor's classic alternation of bullying and sympathizing. He is shot at by terrorists, but even this does not upset his routine of work, liquor, sleep and sun bathing. His sleepwalking ends when he seduces a Cypriot girl. Before his guilt can bring him to renounce his job, the girl...
...carnival-loving Renaissance prince who tried to lure Russian Orthodoxy into union with Rome. The third (1534-49) was a reformer of sorts who gave his own son and nephews cardinalates, yet also convoked the great Council of Trent. The fourth (1555-59) was an unlamented inquisitor, who boasted: "Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him." The fifth (1605-21) was also a rigid doctrinaire, who fought bitterly with the anticlericals of his time...
...Call to Greatness. Paul VI is neither inquisitor nor nepotist nor Renaissance prince. Yet he is a strange and complex man whom few have been able to define with precision. Italian Banker Vittorino Veronese, a former chief of Italy's Catholic Action movement, says that he has "such a very rich personality that he is impossible to classify." Paul's friends claim that he combines the learning and intellectuality of Pius with the openness and reforming spirit of John XXIII. Critics point out that he seems to share Pius' imperious ways with subordinates and lacks John...
...world beyond New Haven knew Whitney Griswold best for his cool-headed defenses of scholarly values. "Books won't stay banned," he warned in McCarthy-era 1952. "Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." Yet he supported the theory that duty required teachers to cooperate with congressional investigators even if the "powers of legislative inquiry are abused." He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football. He fought to repeal...
...stranger to tight corners. Cohn has usually extricated himself with the footwork and quickness of tongue he learned as chief inquisitor for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy in the days when Cohn and Schine were names to reckon with. In recent years, bankrolled in part by high-interest moneylenders in Hong Kong and Panama, Cohn has restlessly bobbed in and out of control of five travel agencies, two airline-insurance companies, a savings and loan association, a small loan company and a swimming-pool building company. His associates in various deals have ranged from the late Columnist George Sokolsky...