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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...
...that could be called Young, Bad and Dangerous. Arriving in Madrid recently to start filming Pepita Jiménez, she quickly alienated the nation. She announced that not only had she never read this famous and popular Andalusian novel about a beautiful widow who entices a young seminarian to the wrong side of the altar; but, she said, she had no intention of doing so now. Then she banned the Spanish language from the set: a clause in her contract stipulated that everyone connected with her in the movie speak English. When a lavish bash was held...
Thomas J. Quinlan, now 42, an intense, long-haired, chain-smoking Moses who felt called to lead Good Shepherd's flock forth from institutional captivity. Quite orthodox as a young seminarian, he had grown to despise the way Catholics "divorced church from their daily lives...