Word: candlelighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compline, the last hour of the Divine Office, is sung at 7 p.m. and closes with a candlelight procession in the chapel. Real recreation comes now, from 7:30 to 8:30. The sisters usually spend it in the large, attractive community room, chatting. At 9 o'clock all sisters pause wherever they are to recite to themselves the De Profundis for the dead. Curfew rings at 9:30, but not all the sisters go right to bed. Mother Mary Columba's light burns late into the night...
Inside, a portrait of the blond, blue-eyed proprietress smiles down from above the hearth at the waiters rushing between nine tables and an array of smorgasbord in the middle of the room. When the aroma and the candlelight have created the proper mood, grab a plate and sample the display of food. "Take all you can eat, but eat all you take," is the menu's advice. Ignore...
...freshman class will offer candlelight supper on table cloths and reserve the Union rotunda for Saturday dinner couples as part of a two-pronged scheme of the Union Committee to attract more girls to the Yard...
This was followed by Rhapsody in candlelight--"a little piece I wrote myself," and The Beer barrel Polka-"I used to play this in Milwaukee saloons." Softly tittering figures skittered up the aisles to snap a picture. One teen-ager ducked under an usher's arm and squirmed breathlessly to the edge of the stage." "I see you baby," Libby called...
Apparently such picture-stories filled the need of a century ago which "true-life" comics and pseudohistorical movies now supply with considerably more effort and expense. Seen in flickering candlelight and buttressed by proper rhetoric, they presented a lurid, larger-than-life view of the nation's early history...