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...edgy. For one thing, who could possibly replace Vartan Gregorian, the charismatic fund raiser who had led them out of fiscal ruin? And, of more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest. Sure enough, when the door opened, the big, bulky man who entered was wearing a Roman collar. Silence. He walked into the stiff assemblage and said in a gravelly baritone, "Anybody got a light...
Young Tim went to Regis, a Jesuit high school that admitted only the brightest kids. As he remembers it, "One night in June they called a meeting of all new boys and their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one minute before or one minute after. At Regis we do things on time.' Well, my father said, loud enough to be heard ten rows in front and ten rows behind, 'Aw, s---!' I thought, that's it! I'm finished. They'll have my ass out of here...
...parents gave him a little Dodge with a rumble seat for his high school graduation in 1939, and when he announced that he intended to start training as a Jesuit, they hung on to the vehicle for a while, thinking that their quick-tempered son might not last. He does not see his vocation on a grand scale of spiritual drama. "I truly think it takes more to keep a good marriage going over a number of years than it does to be a priest," he says. The order itself was the natural choice for a young...
After a career of building universities, Jesuit Timothy Healy gingers up a mighty, yet vulnerable, national resource: New York's unique public library system...
Friends eulogize Duarte as the man who, as one close adviser put it, "started a process, a tendency toward democracy." Detractors, such as Jesuit scholar Ignacio Martin Baro, assert that "history will remember Duarte as the President who mortgaged the sovereignty of his country to the Americans." Duarte may best be remembered, however, as the leader who could not live up to his own best intentions...