Word: seminarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the former Jesuit seminarian with the classical world view who has been known chiefly for his studied Spartan life-style and talk about lowering expectations must be taken a bit more seriously in the Democratic scramble. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook herewith examines the Governor's record and his chances...
...young apostle of nonviolence in the '60s, was arrested more than 40 times in civil rights demonstrations, and his skull was fractured at Selma in 1965. Since 1970 he has headed the Voter Education Project in Atlanta and helped register some 3.5 million blacks. As a Baptist seminarian, Lewis was kidded for talking up the Social Gospel, but he insists that some "immutable principles" must be at the base of the "Beloved Society" he envisions, and nonviolence is one of them. If a compassionate world is the end, he argues, "then the means we use must be consistent with...
Jerry Brown, onetime Jesuit seminarian, believes that sin is original and selfish instincts natural, and he also suspects that America is experiencing a "counterreformation" - against the expansive governmental policies of past years. What makes these views especially striking, of course, is that Brown, 37, is the Democratic Governor of California. In his first year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning governmental employment and spending. He has admonished Californians to lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of inherent limits instead of boundless...
Prophet of the white-ethnic movement and founder-editor of EMPAC (Ethnic Millions Political Action Committee) is Michael Novak, 42, a Bayville, N.Y., Catholic intellectual and former seminarian, who hopes to shape the new white consciousness into a "creative and progressive force." Novak, author of The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (1972), attributes traditional animosity between Catholic blue-collar whites and blacks to "elite Protestant politics" that pitted the two groups against each other in a war for economic survival...
...governors (see box following page). But Brown takes pride in his restraint, as if he were doing people a favor that they scarcely realize. Too much government, he maintains, has been bad for them. "I think you've got to focus on individual accountability," says the onetime Jesuit seminarian. "You just can't get everything without pain and suffering or without having to pay a price. There is no such thing as a free ride anywhere...