Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School. For the priests: the Rev. Victor White, a Dominican, professor of theology at Oxford and lecturer at Carl Jung's psychiatric institute in Zurich; the Rev. Mark Hurley, principal of Oakland's Bishop O'Dowd High School; and the Rev. Willis J. Egan, a Jesuit, professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. The moderator: Dr. Carl Jonas, both a Roman Catholic and a Freudian psychiatrist. The subject: guilt...
...since 1949, when their team won the National Invitation Tournament, have the Dons been able to hold up their heads in the national standing. After its N.I.T. success, the little (2,515 students) Jesuit university on Ignatian Heights lost Coach Pete Newell to the high-priced payroll of Michigan State, its champions were graduated and there was neither the money nor the organization to recruit replacements...
...America, the Jesuit weekly, the Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J., last week wrote some testy words about the state of the American language. Father Davis was especially upset over linguistic corruption by advertising agencies...
...weeks before the Nazis overran Austria, the thirty-year old lecturer has filled his life with more activity than most men twice his life wit more activity than most men twice his age. The scion of an old rabbinical family, Taubes worked from 1943 to 1945 with Jesuit priests and the great Protestant theologian, Karl Barth, in a network of underground groups centered in Zurich...
There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...