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...along the road of life-chumming up with every hobo or sheepherder he encounters and detesting most churchmen, policemen and lawyers-a sad conclusion grows. It is all very well to be down on the sanctimonious likes of John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman (his top three detestees). But Douglas, the longest-sitting Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939 through the present), has grown disconcertingly righteous about his lifelong anti-Establishment views...
With each passing year she became more the beloved public figure she deserved to be. There were still a few catcalls. Westbrook Pegler never stopped calling her "la boca grande," but fewer listened. In 1949 Cardinal Spellman threw an alarming tantrum over a "My Day" column opposing federal aid to parochial schools. He declared her conduct "unworthy of an American mother" but journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal...
...against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that his worldly inclinations could be reversed when his creed was at stake; in 1949, a gravediggers' strike hit the archdiocese of New York City, and Tom Berrigan appeared shovel in hand to help Cardinal Spellman break the strike...
...peopled by meth freaks, lumberjacks, a man called Simply That, and a vaporous presence named Aretha with "religious thighs" and "no goals" who is described as "one step soft of heaven." A large supporting cast includes "mrs. Cunk," who sells "fake blisters at the World's Fair," Cardinal Spellman, Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Temple. The pages are liberally sprinkled with obscure metaphors and allusions to E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Shakespeare and Rabelais, scraps of song lyrics, even a self-composed epitaph: "here lies bob dylan demolished by Vienna politeness . . . bob dylan -killed by a discarded Oedipus...
...trouble: as one of the members of Clergy Concerned about Viet Nam, he had spoken sympathetically when young Catholic Roger LaPorte burned himself to death in Manhattan to protest the war. Moved by growls from Francis Cardinal Spellman's chancery office, the Jesuits sent Daniel on a trip to Latin America. It was the wrong trip: exposure to social injustices not only deepened his radical attitudes but "converted" the fellow Jesuit who had been sent along as his companion. Within ten weeks, a nationwide protest by Catholic liberals and radicals brought Daniel home...