Word: cloistering
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...world's social conscience may well rejoice when it hears the glad tidings that the international crisis has at last penetrated the cloister walls of that Wellesley-satellite, Pine Manor. The powers-that-be have decided to postpone their production of Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid" in order "to avoid complicating the international situation...
Colonel Moore-Brabazon is fascinated by the news of the atom's interior and behavior which trickles out of the cloister into the writings of such interpreters as Jeans, Eddington and Professor Andrade. But he is also somewhat annoyed by the paradoxes and abstractions which result from the fact that atomic behavior cannot be visualized or represented by commonplace physical analogy. In a letter printed by Nature last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing...
...cloister thee in some religious house...
...Kipling at 70, looking back over his career, it seemed that every card in it "had been dealt me in such a manner that I had but to play it as it came." True, he had wanted to write a big novel-something "worthy to lie alongside The Cloister and the Hearth"-but that had not been vouchsafed him. On the other hand he had written some books that he knew were good: "My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw." Friends...
...significant that President Lowell who so often said that this is the "age of advertising" should live to see Harvard's men of learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant...