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...squabble last December by publishing his autobiography, I Believe in Hope, without Jesuit clearance. The book is sympathetically leftist, and somewhat candid about priests' sexual frustrations, but what piqued Arrupe was Diez-Alegria's refusal to submit to Jesuit censorship before publication. Arrupe has since suspended the Spaniard from the society for two years. One important reason for his action: the case revived talk among a group of conservative Jesuits in Spain about starting separate houses where they could follow a traditional, disciplined regime...
...their prospering industrial corner of north central Spain, some 2,000,000 dour, strong-willed Basques-"the alkaloid of the Spaniard," Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called them -fret that hard work and efficiency have not brought them the recognition and cultural elbowroom that they feel they deserve in a still-autocratic society. In France, which enjoys Western Europe's fastest-growing economy, young Bretons in search of a job and a future still gravitate to Paris. There they gather nightly, like so many expatriates, in the bars around Montparnasse to raise their glasses to a murmured Breiz atao-Brittany...
...thing is that in overestimating the WASP-both as hero and as villain -he underestimates everybody else. One would never guess that the most talented playwright in American history was a black Irishman named Eugene O'Neill, or that the wisest philosopher was a half-Spaniard, George Santayana. One would never suspect that America's only native art, jazz, was the invention of Americans who were neither Anglo-Saxon nor white...
...mingum-several times a millionaire and one of the alltime greats of the corrida -quoted his friend Pablo Picasso to explain why he came out of retirement this year. "I asked Picasso what he thought of my wish to go back to the bulls, and he gave me a Spaniard's answer: 'I have been painting most of my life, and I will die painting. You have been fighting bulls most of your life. So you go back to the arena, and if you die impaled on the horns of a bull, what better death could you wish...
...remains a passionate and epic work, and it was Picasso's sole politically effective gesture. The best comment on Picasso's later (and continuing) role as a painter laureate to the French Communist Party, which he joined in 1944, was made by Salvador Dali: "Picasso is a Spaniard-so am I! Picasso is a genius-so am I! Picasso is a Communist-nor am I!" For Picasso's political naiveté is extreme, and his role in the party has never been more than ornamental...