Word: cloistered
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...process of protective coddling, unfit their students for effective participation in a calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious...
...Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America's tenth man," and resolved upon a campaign for the education and conversion of the nation's 12,000,000 Negroes. Among her many foundations were an industrial school for Negro girls at Nashville, Tenn., the Holy Providence House for Negro children...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...
...believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria an international loan, prevented civil war. He resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled last year, he failed to form a cabinet. In office and out he always lived as a simple priest in a small stone cloister cell, where each morning he celebrated mass. His noon meal was usually soup taken to him in a convent iron kettle...
Outside the cloister of his fanaticism for words and work Author Bennett pursued the society of literati, filled his journal with notes on the contemporary scene. He was not choosey. He confesses in one of his few poems: For me a rural pond is not more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea...