Word: cloister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cloister...
Every time I read about a religious recluse, I wonder what our world would have been like today had Christ chosen to cloister himself rather than give his great love and knowledge to the world...
...Simply glance at it you grovel/Hand and foot in Belial's gripe," the monk goes on to say in Robert Browning's poem, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, about an otherwise unidentified book...
...Francis, and members of the local Franciscans. The monks also gave Producer Plato Skouras, son of Spyros, free use of their archives and buildings-including the exquisitely ornamental papal throne room of Assisi's 12th century basilica. The Franciscans' only restriction: no women within the cloister of San Damiano (originally a convent built by Francis for St. Clare), thus requiring the stationing of script girls in remote-control trailers a mile from...
...architecture, the European need only visit the Cloisters on the Hudson to see what has happened. There, in one "arbitrary hodgepodge," are the Saint-Guilhem cloister, the chapter house of Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut, woodwork from the House of Francis I in Abbeville, the cloisters of Cuxa and Bonnefont. Concludes Gaya-Nuňo: "The whole of Europe is nothing but a Flea Market that waits, full of anxiety and emotion, for the arrival of the nouveáu riche...