Word: jesuitically
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...roaming the corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college professor (she taught economics at the Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively bangs their dossiers on their desks, her dark eyes flashing with disdain...
...historian Joseph Ellis is an old Gonzaga boy, like me and Pat Buchanan and Bill Bennett. I have been searching my memory: Was there anything in our rigorous Jesuit education that encouraged us to indulge in cheesy fabulations? I can't think of anything - rather the contrary. The Jesuits I remember had a ruthless, punitive regard for facts and truth...
...term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...
...Robert Kiely and David Perkins, teaching English and American literature of the 20thCentury, could make it come alive. “Pull down they vanity!” roared Perkins, reading Ezra Pound. “Come up, you fearful Jesuit,” intoned Kiely, doing James Joyce in an Irish brogue. They made us feel...
...Robert Kiely and David Perkins, teaching English and American literature of the 20thCentury, could make it come alive. “Pull down they vanity!” roared Perkins, reading Ezra Pound. “Come up, you fearful Jesuit,” intoned Kiely, doing James Joyce in an Irish brogue. They made us feel...