Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pike was born a Roman Catholic. But after two years at the Jesuit University of Santa Clara in California, he left both his faith and his college and set out to be a good agnostic lawyer. He graduated from the University of Southern California Law School, and in 1938 earned a J.S.D. at Yale, then went to Washington. About that time, he found his agnosticism wearing a bit thin and he joined the Episcopal Church...
...Other Oxonian exceptions: Matthew Arnold, Walter Savage Landor, Southey, Swinburne and a second cousin of Reader Hopkins, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
...sing") and, finally, a heartbreaking good night as Cesana gazes deep and soulfully into his loved one's eyes and breathes: "I haven't any right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal of TV lover by the usual circuitous route. Jesuit-educated Renzo was precocious enough at 16 to have his first play produced by Roberto Rossellini. He reached the U.S. in 1934 as a writer-actor for MGM, which was then making a series of Italian-language films. He has spent the past 15 years in & out of radio, advertising and publicity...
Bogotá's art fraternity was enthusiastic about Rodriguez' luminous beauties. The Spanish ambassador asked to borrow two of them for exhibition in Spain. But decency leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
Father Leonard J. Feeney is the director of St. Benedict's Center near Adams House and a constant foe of the teachings at the University. Suspended from the Jesuit order two years ago for teaching that only Catholics may enter Heaven, he has lately been holding open-air meetings he expounds his own particular brand of Catholicism and, more recently, his rather common place brand of anti-Semitism...