Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are now, after a century of intense missionary effort, 350,000 Christians in Japan. There were 400,000 at the end of the 16th Century, when Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries were active in the islands. Before a savage persecution almost exterminated them, the great center of Japan's Christians was Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb fell...
...Power," was "crowned with the halo of holiness because he fought for it with all his might." To the mighty organization he founded and led, the Society of Jesus, he bequeathed the rule: to be "all things to all men" in order to win all. Ignatius' disciples-the Jesuit missionaries, diplomats, scientists, economists, lawyers-became the most skilled, determined, and often the most feared religious brotherhood in history...
...Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children...
Those who say no got a strong advocate last week: Walter J. Ong, onetime professor of English at Denver's small Regis College, now completing his Jesuit studies at St. Mary's (Kansas) College. Said Ong in the Arizona Quarterly: Superman is a Nazi...
...Stalin never saw the inside of a Jesuit Seminary. In fact, TIME, I'll bet that Joe has never seen a Jesuit...