Word: seminarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Sunday, Portugal's "qualified" voters may, if they wish, go to the polls. Since Salazar seized power 20 years ago there have been several presidential "elections," but this was the first in which an opposition candidate was permitted. Once a seminarist slated for the priesthood, later a university economist, devout, self-effacing Dictator Salazar believes the masses incapable of governing themselves. Every now & then he lets the opposition show its head, to make a show of "democracy...
Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death...
...attempt falls into two parts. The first part, which covers Stalin's dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful...