Word: cloister
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...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...
...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...
...shell-or crustacean cloister...
...relic of the monasteries that Henry VIII abolished in 1540, the Abbey is now called the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster. Serving also as a school, the Abbey has an adjacent cloister, a museum and a deanery. From its schoolchildren-including Dryden, Milne, John Gielgud and Peter Ustinov-have come seven Prime Ministers, ten archbishops and at least four convicted murderers...
...geared to outdoor living?golf and swimming particularly, and an old-fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building, the Cloister, an expansive three-story building that is done in Spanish red-tile fashion. Though there is a band for dancing in the evenings, spirited nightlife is almost nonexistent. First-time guests at Sea Island usually take a room at the Cloister (summer rates $32-$49 a day double with meals...