Word: cloister
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...first sight, released tune does not seem offensive, for, after all, no one is herded willy-nilly into a cloister. But actually, organized religion derives many a benefit from this program. To make this clear, we must examine the various alternatives to released time that church organizations can choose from...
Witch & Minster. At the core of the book is a miracle. While digging the foundation for a new Franciscan cloister, young Edwin Widowson unearths a queer, antique fist of pure gold. The friars set a guard to it, but the next night Edwin, persuaded by outlaws, filches the treasure and leaves in its place the hand of his brother, who has been hanged. "Miracle!" cry the good friars in the morning...
...Flight of Falcons, by Francoise d'Eaubonne, is an attempt by a young Frenchwoman to write a historical novel in the grand manner of The Cloister and the Hearth, and she achieves a considerable success...
...Cloister. As she grew up, Barbara's need for a dramatic outlet became more urgent than ever. The pictures father Norman took on his rare, explosive visits show her as a leggy towhead assuming all the languorous and seductive poses common to the movie magazines of the day. When no camera was at hand, Barbara would register her soul-searing emotions before a mirror. Her sister Joan and her mother, who disapproved of the children going to movies, called it "making faces...
...Century, is considered one of the strictest in the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Trappists, who live and work together in silence, the Carthusians spend most of their time in complete solitude. Carthusian monasteries, which the British call "charter houses," are constructed around a cloister, on which opens each monk's individual house with his private walled garden. The houses are small but include a room for eating, a room for sleeping, a study and a chapel. Each monk has a woodworking shop in which he may spend a recommended half-hour of diversion each day working with...