Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been nicked by the aerospace cutbacks. In Manhattan, Chairman Thomas O'Neil, 49, a onetime Holy Cross College football star, oversees the company's entertainment subsidiary, RKO General, and specializes in acquisitions. And John O'Neil, 47, an extraverted intellectual who once studied for the priesthood, heads the finance committee...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A deft biography of the neglected French military genius who furthered the fortunes of the Hapsburgs after Louis XIV insulted the young man by telling him he was fit only for the priesthood...
...British classical scholar, has more to say about Josephus' times than about the man. Indeed, all that is known about his life comes from Josephus' own account. Born in A.D. 37 in Roman-ruled Palestine, Josephus grew up in a fervently religious household and joined the priesthood at 18. When the Jews rebelled in 66 A.D., Josephus was sent to defend the region of Galilee. Though nearly all his troops deserted him, Josephus made a stubborn last stand in the cliff-perched city of Jotapata. The garrison held out for 47 blood-soaked days against a vastly superior...
...frail and his manners effeminate. France's Louis XIV concluded that he would never make a soldier, forthwith ordered him to study for the priesthood. It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled to Vienna and the court of Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who happened to be a distant cousin. Prince Eugen solemnly swore that he would return to France only in another guise -with sword...
...communicating the Gospel in the jungles of the deChristianized city. A descendant of his namesake the poet, and a distant cousin of Playwright Tennessee Williams, Lanier was raised as a Baptist in Florida, spent an adult decade of "militant agnosticism" before deciding, in 1950, to study for the Episcopal priesthood. After a tour of clerical duty in the Virgin Islands and at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas' church he became convinced that "the church in its parochial form is just not part of what's going...