Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner of this year's Dana Reed Prize for published writing, will receive the second prize of $300 for his essay on "Herrick's Echoes of Horace." Third in the undergraduate division was Robert L. Larsen '54, who will be awarded $100. Honorable Mention was given to John G. Benedict...
...Sara-Jane Smith, as the milk-maid Patience, add some clever acting to the production. Along with excellent leads, Patience is served by a chorus of British soldiers and love-sick maidens who enthusiastically catch the G & S flavor. Adele Hugo's choreography and the direction of John Benedict keeps this cast moving through well-timed routines. In the past, disappointing performances have made the Winthrop opera a risky luxury for Gilbert and Sullivan fans. This year, Patience is a necessity...
...Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...
Last week, as they have for centuries of pestilence and peace and rumor of the world's destruction, the Benedictines were busy building their hives of holy industry around the world. On Monte Cassino, St. Benedict's greatest monastery, laid waste in World War II for the fourth time in its history, was about rebuilt again. And on 2,500 rolling acres at Collegeville, Minn., about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, work was getting under way on a Benedictine abbey which the editor of Liturgical Arts magazine has called "truly a milestone in the evolution of the architecture...
...Rush. Breuer's plans for the 19 new buildings that will make up the new St. John's include a fresh conception of cloisters. Instead of running along the side of a building, as cloisters have done since St. Benedict, they will be independent covered walks, mostly of local fieldstone on the outer side, roofed with reinforced concrete and glass-walled or open on the inner side to provide views of the gardens and landscaping. Said one monk: "This is a great improvement over traditional Benedictine architecture, where buildings are always so planned that if a fire starts...