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...kind of Munich equivalent of Paris' Latin Quarter. Munich's finest university was near by, abstract painters mingled with budding ballerinas, and professors were the local gods. Young Franz Josef might have gone right on cutting Weiss-null and Leberkds all his life if the parish priest had not observed how swiftly the lad caught the meaning of his Latin prayers and helped get him a scholarship at the crack Maximilian Gymnasium...
...long discussions between priest and writer, the source of much of the story, began the day before, when Father Murray met Auchincloss and Researcher Paula von Haimberger Arno at Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station. Driving his 1960 Dodge through the city's hilly outskirts to his headquarters at Woodstock College, Father Murray pondered the rapid disappearance of the U.S. countryside and good-naturedly brushed aside Mrs. Arno's apology for "wrecking his schedule." Replied the Jesuit: "What of a little wreckage? There is nothing but wreckage around us today...
Amid the growing tension, New Orleans' police reinforced their cordon around the school. That only seemed to make the mob angrier. Reporters and photographers were attacked. The Rev. Jerome Drolet, a Catholic priest who accompanied the Foremans to school one morning, was met with cries of "bastard," "Communist" and "nigger lover." Restlessly, the mob moved to the Foremans' frame cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders...
...months to come, serious Americans of all sorts and conditions-in pinstripes and laboratory gowns, space suits and housecoats-will be discussing his hopes and fears for American democracy. This m itself betokens a new era in the U S For Author Murray is a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit...
Looking at Simonov's work one finds Communism rarely mentioned. The emphasis is rather on nationalism and on people. Communism is affirmed indirectly, however, because the people and nation about which Simonov cares all accept it. One is reminded of a passage in Days and Nights in which a priest, the father of one of the soldiers is being described: "... he was a powerful man, and sometimes a rough one. But the father had never known hatred. He had not loved the demobilized Red Army soldier, Stepanyuk, who had opened a branch of "The Society of the Godless...