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Father Feeney, a Jesuit teacher who was once associate editor of the magazine America, did not recant. Though he was also dismissed from the Jesuit order, he stayed at St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, a house of studies originally founded for the use of Catholic Harvard-men. A core of disciples gathered around him, most of them college students attracted by his magnetic personality and fanatic theology. Now under a hundred, they call themselves the "Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
...party moved to punish the culprits. A communiqué itemized their sins; they added up to "fractionalism." Marty was fired from the party secretariat, but kept his job in the politburo. Tillon was fired from the politburo, but remained on the central committee. Both were given a month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error to correct their...
...When the body is not getting enough food, especially sugar, the pituitary gland apparently sees to it that the brain receives the lion's share of the available sugar, because that is the only kind of fuel the brain can use. Dr. Lillian Recant of St. Louis, trying to find out how the pituitary does this job, had one new clue. It is not only the pituitary's growth hormone that serves as a regulator, but some other secretion still undiscovered...
...been put to doing evil. By the jury's verdict he was marked as a man who, having dedicated himself to Communism under a warped sense of idealism, had not served it openly, but covertly; a man who, having .once served an alien master, lacked the courage to recant his past, but went on making of his whole life an intricate, calculated...
Wallach's statement went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...