Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eric de Bisschop, skipper of the raft Tahiti Nui II, it was a familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...length he preached a sermon of recantation in St. Paul's just six days after King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham and began war against his Puritan Parliament. Thereafter, Gage sent to torture and the scaffold an old schoolmate from St. Omer's, a Jesuit priest. There is also some evidence that he actually informed on one of his own brothers, a priest who was executed. Another brother, a colonel in King Charles's army, out of shame offered him a thousand pounds to leave the country; it was not enough...
...Eternity was every day; Hell began at five in the morning." So Jesuit Thomas Phillips describes his life in a Chinese Communist jail. In a new book, I Met a Traveler (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.50), Fellow Jesuit Kurt Becker describes how Father Phillips, former rector of Shanghai's Church of Christ the King, spent three years (1953-56) in Shanghai cells, for the most part squatting in one position all day, forbidden to speak a word. By refusing to defend himself against any charge ("I know that I am here only because I am a Catholic priest...
...honest enough to know that neither he nor any new society could change his nature; he knew that his Old School Tie set him off from other men in Britain, and he wore it with the same mixture of pain and pride as the Blessed John Ogilvie, a Jesuit missionary, might have shown toward the halter with which he was hanged at Glasgow (1615), not far north of (nor so very long before) Orwell's social researches...
...Rock Hudson. Tied for fourth place were President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic cause for the weakening fabric of U.S. family life...