Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no sound from most of Christopher Wren's churches in the City of London. But there were the old guttural notes from St. Paul's Cathedral, and the same mellow chimes from Westminster Abbey. At Coventry the cathedral bells, all that were saved in a night of concentrated blitzing, sang out at special length, to observe the victory and to commemorate the second anniversary of the raid which destroyed the cathedral and the town...
Shaw's first plays were received without enthusiasm, but soon he was battling with the dramatic leaders of his day. Invited to Westminster Abbey for Shakespearean Actor Sir Henry Irving's funeral, he retorted: "Literature, alas, has no place at his death as it had no place in his life. Irving would turn in his coffin if I came, just as Shakespeare will turn in his coffin when Irving comes...
Britain's onetime War Secretary had proved his contentions by practicing them. He had chosen the Leicester Abbey because the Cistercians isolate themselves as completely as possible, adhering to a strict rule of silence. When they must communicate with one another, they use a sign language...
...days Leslie Hore-Belisha, who used to take his holidays on the Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...their sting, even in the House of Commons. He could also reflect that it is nearly three years since he held Government office, and that the British people are looking for new leaders. He could reflect that, like the great Cardinal Wolsey in 1530, he arrived at the Abbey stripped of political grandeur, begging: "Of your charity, spare me a piece of earth...