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Noble Animal. President Milazzo, Jesuit-educated and a practicing Catholic, countered these attacks by naming his rump party the Christian Social Union, choosing as its emblem a map of Sicily with a cross planted on its southern tip -where St. Paul is said to have planted one 2,000 years ago. And from a thousand ancient balconies he appealed skillfully to the age-old Sicilian conviction that "foreigners"-whether Saracen, Norman or mainland Italian-have only one interest in Sicily: the amount of plunder they can take out of it. "They have called me a Trojan horse," croaked Milazzo...
...partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only $5,000, "not because of any lack of affection for him, but because of special circumstances." The circumstances: as a member of the Jesuit order, the Rev. Avery Dulles is bound by a vow of poverty...
...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
...your shield-bearer." It is Galileo's disregard of Kepler, even to the point of not sending him a telescope he asked for, that influences Koestler's frank distaste for Galileo. Far from being a martyr, Koestler believes, Galileo was a pompous megalomaniac, who alienated his Jesuit friends and the benevolence of Pope Urban VIII, until he forced his own trial. But in the main, Author Koestler is equable-tempered and gives Galileo full marks for crumbling the Aristotelian notion of the eternal immutability of the upper heavens...
...rededicate himself, in a sense, to the Sherman tradition. He attended Army of the Tennessee reunions, took such tough stands on national issues -"Socialism asks us to vote for the dishonor of our mothers"; "The man who shoots an anarchist on sight is a public benefactor"-that his Jesuit superiors pulled him off speaking tours. In 1898 he volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain, served in Puerto Rico...