Word: cloister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...
...professional training we received," says Mary Moynihan, 33. "They gave us everything they had." At the same time, they believe that their approach to cooperative living may lead to still other experiments in lay spirituality that the church may some day accept and bless as valid alternatives to the cloister and the wall...
...wears nylons and smokes an occasional cigarette, but Soeur Sourire still feels the effects of the cloister even though she has left the Dominican convent outside Brussels to pursue a secular career as a pop singer. "I am not yet ready to face audiences," smiled Janine Deckers, 38, the singing nun who now goes by the name of Luc-Dominique. So when she embarks early next year on a tour of the U.S., Sister Smile will probably do most of her singing on taped TV shows...
Father Grégoire Lemercier, prior of St. Mary of the Resurrection monastery near Cuernavaca, Mexico, believes that psychoanalysis is good for the soul-especially the soul of the monk. Convinced that too many men enter the cloister out of fear of the world or from a sense of sexual inadequacy, Benedictine Lemercier five years ago encouraged the monks and postulants at St. Mary's to undertake group-therapy sessions. As a result, 40 of them decided that they did not have a true vocation and left, but Lemercier is sure that St. Mary's is the better...
...there are nevertheless a number of aspects in which the building doesn't equal the ambiance of the "medieval cloister" with which the Radcliffe News Office has somewhat unfortunately compared it. While the exterior does, perhaps, evoke the "pattern of light and shadow associated with the contemplative mood of a medieval cloister," it lacks the sense of weighty mass and the play of volumes which is indispensible to the monastic mood. It is one of the few buildings which looks exactly like its cut-out mock-ups or elevation drawings...