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Dora Greenfield arrives at Imber Abbey without her bags, holding only a butterfly between her hands. She soon realizes her mistake—that she has left all of her belongings on the train, including her husband’s irreplaceable notebook—and releases the colorful butterfly...
...same instincts that attracted her to the butterfly on the train, and made her forget all else, seem irreconcilable with the routine life that those at Imber lead. Dora has come to the Abbey as an outsider—she joins her husband Paul, a scholar who is investigating Imber’s medieval manuscripts. She has no innate religious tendencies...
Dora by nature fears oppression and responsibility (she had briefly left Paul, finding him dour), but her time at the Abbey changes her. By the end of the novel Dora senses that the habitual life of the religious offers her the possibility for an unexpected kind of freedom...
...billion around the world. The gods of the Olympics might begin to get their bearings up at the Sacra di San Michele. Perched on a jagged rock formation nearly a kilometer above the valley that connects the city to the Alps just 80 km away, this 10th century Benedictine abbey offers a sweeping panorama of the winterland known as the Milky Way, where some 2,500 athletes will vie for gold. Look westward from the Sacra's cobblestone terrace and pick out the 3,800-m snow-capped mountains girding the resort town of Sestriere, site of the Alpine skiing...
PRIMETIME LOCATION: Lowell Lecture Hall DATES: Dec.. 16-17 DIRECTORS: Tina M. Gonzalez ’07, Chrstine M. Fitzgerald ’07, and Abbey R. Wright ’07 With a title that paid homage to the NBC television “Must See TV” campaign, “Primetime: Must-See T.V. Meets Can’t-Miss Choreography” showcased the Mainly Jazz Dance Company and TAPS in an upbeat program featuring dance pieces set mostly to T.V. show theme songs. The inventive concept was fitting for a show that seemed...