Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Things to All Men. At 33 he took his first lessons in Latin with a group of schoolboys, then moved on to Paris, center of European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier. From that small band grew Loyola's Society of Jesus, officially constituted six years later-in 1540-by Pope Paul III. Ignatius, ordained a priest only three years before the papal recognition, at last became a "general," for the Society of Jesus was set up like a military body. with...
...lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...
...Taunting Xavier and his faith, Mirbel agrees to go back to his wife if Xavier will forget about his seminary obligations and come with him. The dark, wind-blown mansion to which Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted boy of nine. There is a vapid secretary-governess who purrs around Xavier like a cat on a hot tiled roof. There is the self-centered stepmother-in-law, a grande dame sans merci...
...gift Xavier brings them-selfless love-they cannot understand. His kindliness to them merely starts Mirbel's wife primping before her mirror and stalking him along the country lanes. As for the demoniacal Mirbel, Xavier's love only puts murder in his heart. Poor, anguished Xavier finally breaks when the local cure smugly assures him that "Christianity is true just insofar as every myth is true." Biking blindly homeward, Xavier either throws himself before Mirbel's car, or is run down in cold blood...
Japan was spared the mambo until last fall, when touring Bandman Xavier Cugat introduced it. But it did not really catch on until the Japanese saw Jane Russell do the Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...