Word: jesuitical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take-Off. The Friars' greatest success was in routing the ex-Jesuit, Alighiero Tondi, who had been booked for a series of speeches in Emilia following his spectacular conversion to Communism (TIME, May 5, 1952). At Tondi's first lecture, before a packed Communist audience at the University of Bologna, Toschi and nine of the Flying Friars were there to heckle. Sample dialogue...
...Terrebonne Parish, swamp-fire violence flared briefly when four men ambushed and shot three Negro sugar-mill workers, wounding them slightly. The four were promptly arrested. Said Governor Robert F. Kennon: "I feel it is my duty to publicly state that such acts will not be tolerated." Said Jesuit Father L. J. Twomey of New Orleans' Loyola University: "The workers are apparently willing to take whatever risks are involved to free, if not themselves, at least their children, from this environment...
Sharpest counter-polemic came from Jesuit Father Joseph Christie, preaching in London. Answering the archbishop's complaints of aggressive Catholic proselytizing. Father Christie said: "We do not need to seek converts; they are driven to us by Communists and modernist clerics within the [Church of England] itself...
...last week Gene, now a senior at New Orleans' Jesuit High School, was still at the helm and his father, now an experienced old salt, shared the honor of racing in the finals of the North American Sailing championship...
High Compression. The Rev. Robert C. Hartnett, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America, accused the Times of ballooning some casual anti-Joe McCarthy remarks he had made into headlines, at the expense of a "balanced report" of his considered views on how academic freedom and civil liberties are being affected by the congressional investigations...