Four members of the Canadian baseball team were ruled ineligible as professionalism, inspiring a rush
of journalese on the proposition: Just what is an amateur, Harry?
Despite his humble origins as a baker's son from Trastevere, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, longtime curial head
of the Holy Office («successor to the Inquisition,» in
journalese) and scourge
of the nouvelle théologie
of the 1950s, was a formidable figure in pre-conciliar Catholicism.