Word: seminarist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium. The swollen mob swept through the city, upset and burned cars, stoned and mauled Europeans, pillaged shops. Bands looted public buildings and invaded mission schools, concentrating their fury on Roman Catholic more than on Protestant schools (though Kasavubu, mission-educated, studied philosophy for three years as a Catholic seminarist). Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned key points about the European part of the city. But for two whole days the rioting continued, until an estimated 175 people had been killed...
Crow & Cherries. The book's hero, a kind of clerical Candide, is the Abbe Victor Mas, naive young seminarist at Versailles who is sent to Rome to study and to live in the household of His Eminence, Cardinal Belloro, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The cardinal is not far from being a Renaissance figure. He does not care much for the unceremonious style of modern cardinals like New York's Spellman ("the American Pope"). He savagely attacks Pius XII, whose order curtailing the length of cardinals' trains by one half annoys...
Gautier's classic Clarimonde (first published in 1888) could pass for an up-to-date case history of psychological spookery but for the fact that it is drenched with old-fashioned ideas. A young seminarist is bowed before the altar, taking his priestly vows, when he glimpses a green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell...
...possible in this century." His heart throbs for Capitu, a dark-haired Juliet with "eyes like the tide when the undertow is strong." Bento's mother had dedicated him to the church at birth, but the seminary is not for Bento. He wins his release along with a seminarist friend named Ezekiel, and goes off to law school. Then he comes home to win the hand of Capitu...
Next morning at 9, the police commissioner called the abbés into his office. As the priests told it, the commissioner first remarked: "I'm an old seminarist myself. You are a partisan to violence instead of fraternity." Then he bopped Abbé Cagne on the head with one of the iron placards the Communists had used to beat up the cops. "I respect the priest, but not the man," roared the officer...