Word: jesuitism
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...curious mix of intellectual exhilaration and spacy West Coast image has dogged Brown ever since the bushy-browed onetime Jesuit seminarian first vaulted into the governorship in 1974. What most characterized his administration was incessant questioning of the status quo. Long nights were spent brainstorming about everything from cost-cutting to energy conservation -- and virtually no idea was considered too absurd to be dismissed out of hand. Recalls state controller Gray Davis, who was Brown's chief of staff: "Upon learning that Nevada had reneged on a tentative agreement to provide greater environmental control over Lake Tahoe, Jerry spent several...
...Jesuit priest goes into the 17th century Canadian wilderness to convert the savages and is himself converted, after terrifying adventures, to cultural relativism. Bruce Beresford's dark dance with the wolves of the spirit is an intelligent, perfectly controlled epic...
...Jesuit priest goes into the 17th century Canadian wilderness to convert the savages and is himself converted, after terrifying adventures, to cultural relativism. Bruce Beresford's dark dance with the wolves of the spirit is an intelligent, perfectly controlled epic...
...ordered the killings of six Jesuit priests and two women that rocked El Salvador in 1989? And who participated in the subsequent cover-up? Although a Salvadoran court last week held two army officers responsible for the murders and acquitted seven lower-ranking soldiers, the answers to those questions may never be resolved. With the government under U.S. pressure to punish the perpetrators, the convictions of a colonel and a lieutenant capped a 20-month investigation and three-day trial. But suspicions linger that the two officers may be fall guys for higher-ranking officers who plotted the predawn massacre...
Father Frank Mihalic, a Jesuit missionary in New Guinea since 1948, views with sadness the degree to which education has alienated the young from their "one talks," as kinsmen are called. "They don't like history because history is embarrassing," he says. "They wince when I talk about the way their dad or their mom lived." Mihalic and other members of his order have intervened to prevent the government from burning spirit houses, used during tribal initiation rites. But other missionaries often tell the young people that their customs are primitive and barbaric. Relatives who have left villages...