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Memory & Myth. Modern-Dance Pioneer Martha Graham is as far removed from Bolshoi technique as the cloister is from the athletic field. Probing ever deeper into the recesses of the psyche, she is an explorer of the mental interior, reflecting on the roles of memory, meditation, myth and the male-female relationship. She successfully blended them all at the beginning of her 21-week Manhattan season in a new work called A Time of Snow, a somber retelling of the love and tragedy of Heloise and Abelard. The Graham dancers embraced the angular and knotty choreography with the familiar...
...Cloister Inn had also been discussing a boycott of Bicker until its graduate board told club members to stop stirring up trouble. After the remonstrance, Cloister's president Valery H. Taylor took a poll in which members split nearly in half on whether or not to Bicker...
...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...
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...