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...Black Pope." The word Jesuit eventually became synonymous in the popular-though mainly Protestant-imagination with duplicity, equivocation and intrigue. Yet the society's demanding training, rigorous discipline and pioneering work in education also earned its members a reputation as "the schoolmasters of Europe." They trained, among others, Molière, Voltaire, Descartes and James Joyce. Even their most ardent critics grudgingly respected the superhuman feats of Jesuit missionary fathers who risked their lives to carry the Word to palaces and peasants on five continents...
...JUAN by Moli...
Much of the evening is monstrously funny, but there is an odor of acrid black comedy to it, possibly because Foreman views Don Juan as "a radical with no place to go" in a corrupt society. Molière's Don Juan is radical only in his supreme egoism. He is a law unto himself, a one-man Fifth Estate. He is as cool a rationalist as he is hot a hedonist...
...Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, New Yorkers have learned that their ordinary tap water deserves an appellation controlee label...
...secessionist movement is headed by Jimmy Stevens, 58, who drove bulldozers before emerging as a separatist leader of Espiritu Santo. "Moli" (chief), as his supporters call Stevens, was elected Chief Minister of Vemarana after the takeover. Holding court in a former dance school that now bears the pidgin-English sign VEMARANA OFIS, he told TIME Correspondent John Dunn: "Time is not important here. We will be open for business in a few days. We want to be free to make our own decisions, to run our own economy and have a picnic when we feel like having...