Word: camaldoli
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas Roosevelt, a cousin of Teddy, a Roman Catholic order of monks called Hermits of New Camaldoli, and Architect Owings, co-founder of the huge architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...
...North Carolina's Belmont Abbey has forsworn some customary monastic pursuits: 15 years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
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