Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Robert de' Nobili, an Italian Jesuit in south India, adopted saffron robes and lived like a Hindu holy man. He made converts among high-caste Hindus, but had to fight off the charges of apostasy made against him by literal-minded fellow priests. Similar missionary techniques were used earlier in the century by Jesuits in China, who followed the dress and manners of local Confucian scholars, and by Jesuits in Japan, who modeled their behavior on that of Buddhist priests...
...prim" BBC [TIME, June 23] ... What American radio station would dare to broadcast the BBC's unexpurgated dramatization of the Trimalchio's Feast episode from the Satyricon of Petronius? On what American network could one expect to find Bertrand Russell debating the existence of God with a Jesuit priest...
...other notable Quiz Kids. Jack Lucal, 25, is studying to be a Jesuit priest; Harve Fischman, 21, has just graduated from UCLA where he wrote, directed and acted in the senior class play; Claude Brenner, 23, does aeronautical engineering research at M.I.T.; Ruthie Duskin, 18, already has one book to her credit (Chemi, the Magician), and took top honors at Northwestern's School of Journalism. Smylla Brind, 24. changed her name to Vanessa Brown and has appeared as a bright-looking ingenue in such movies as The Late George Apley and The Heiress...
...their protégé, Christopher Columbus, made his long voyage west. The beaten Moslems were permitted to remain in Spain-for a time-at the cost of paying their taxes to Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews were given a harsher option: join the church or get out. Writes Jesuit Historian James Brodrick: "The majority honorably and bravely chose exile...
Jerome was no philosopher. As Jesuit Father Ferdinand Cavallera writes, "There is no great mind less speculative than his." Unlike his contemporary, St. Augustine, he did not help produce the theology he defended. He was, however, a literary man of great learning, as particular about his Ciceronian clauses as he was about the doctrine of the Trinity. It was significant that the humanists of the Italian Renaissance, similar in their tastes, admired Jerome, while looking down on other church fathers as uncultured and dull...