Word: loyola
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...reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do what is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs in order that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it-an abstract...
Ways Sr. was not around in 1926 when Ways Jr., turned 21, fled from his philosophy major at Loyola College and his night law course at University of Maryland to the sanctuary of his father's old rival, the Baltimore Sun. By that process of osmosis known to newsmen as "learning the business," he had progressed, by the advent of World War II, from police & sundries reporter to editorial writer of foreign news and national affairs for the Philadelphia Record. In the process he had made himself a qualified political economist-a rarity among U.S. journalists...
...criminal record from the sheriff's files. He awarded a Master of Arts degree to himself and carried around a photostatic copy. With the credentials of a dead attorney he secured admission to the California bar. To reinforce the illusion, he attended a few law classes at Loyola University in Los Angeles...
Professional Preference. In Chicago, Loyola University's nonsmoking Professor P. S. Lietz was getting about eight cigars a week from freshmen veterans-become-fathers, complained, "I'd rather have an apple...
Philip Neri was a saint after Italy's heart. When his canonization was announced at the same time as that of Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Isidore the Farmer, and Teresa of Avila, the Spanish-hating gagsters of Rome wisecracked that the Pope had just canonized "four Spaniards and a saint...