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...right appended to the rest of Jan Fafrand, was pictured in an advertisement for the HTW's "Troilus & Cressida." The ad was submitted to several local college newspapers. Reaction from the Boston College "Heights" was immediate. Where most editors raised their eyebrows, Charles Cullen, Business Editor of the Jesuit College's Weekly, raised the bars. He refused to print the ad unless the photograph was amputated...
Cullen explained that it wasn't only that there was too much tibia and fibula exposed. "It is a definite Jesuit Policy" to prohibit the appearance of females in "bathing suits, dancing costumes, or evening gowns," in undergraduate publications...
...Effective convert-making requires systematic action," writes Jesuit Father John E. Odou, in explaining the organization called Convert Makers of America, of which he is director. Founded in 1944 to enlist the Catholic laity in proselytizing for their faith, the C.M.O.A. requires of its members that they correspond once a week with a priest-adviser on the problems and progress of their convert-making. "Trains, hotels, depots, beauty parlors are all crowded with potential converts," writes Father Odou. "That is why the slogan used by every C.M.O.A. is: 'Never let an opportunity slip...
...upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies on the Lamb...
...noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...