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Several times in his writing life-in his study of Jesuit Edmund Campion, in Brideshead Revisited, and now in Helena -Author Waugh has tried to clear the satiric brambles out of his literary field, and to plant in their stead the herb of grace. He has had no very impressive crop so far, but most Waugh readers don't mind. They can be pretty sure another season will bring forth a bucketful of raspberries on the old Waugh briers...
...pundits were mum, so was Senhor Vargas. His only campaign promise had been to turn out the ins. The gaúchos of his southern frontier district have a saying: "He can wait like an Indian and plan like a Jesuit." This week Vargas issued no victory cries, no bright new programs. He didn't say a single word. He remained at his bare ranch house at Itu, occasionally went out to putter in his garden...
Negotiations began July 9 in the grey Victorian offices of the Ministry of Education in Budapest. Rakosi himself represented the state. Fearing his age and slowness of speech might handicap the church's case, Archbishop Grosz appointed a chief advocate: Father Ferenc Horvath, a red-cheeked little Jesuit priest...
...Jesuit Horvath broke in: "How can you make such an offer? And how can you expect monks to teach against their principles, from Communist textbooks?" Answered Rakosi: "I made you an offer. Take it or leave it. If you leave it, you openly admit you refuse to educate Hungarian youth, the right to which you demand...
...This is a very interesting circumstance of time & place. Today, I am 27 years a priest, 42 years a Jesuit. Today, I baptized an infant and gave the last sacrament to an old woman. Today, as I write this, I am gazing at tomorrow, 2½ miles across the straits separating the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. A Soviet lookout is observing my Little Diomede mission as I pick him out in my binoculars. We are worlds apart...