Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renaissance prince. Mrs. Jack kept adding to the collection until her death, delighted in hanging such beloved contemporaries as Sargent cheek by jowl with the great masters. Sargent's El Jaleo (an Andalusian dance) occupies a specially constructed Moorish alcove in the palace's "Spanish Cloister," is illuminated by footlights concealed behind potted greenery...
...last week was the resulting volume: Cracks in the Cloister (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). The anonymous author, who signs himself Brother Choleric, has never taken an hour's instruction in art, draws only for fun, and carries on the regular priestly duties of preaching and teaching. His characters in cloister clothing are crabbed, crotchety, pompous and appealing. Their shoptalk might be taken from a good public school or a business office, except that it is heavily clerical, e.g., a monk's full prostration before his bishop brings the comment: "Rather ham, don't you think?", and one catty...
...shops that were the pride of Thanthuong were completely looted. We found the body of a six-year-old child, strafed with bullets. Inside the church, all statues of saints were broken, their heads and hands chopped off. The big statue of Christ was broken. The Catholic sisters' cloister, an orphanage and a school ... all that was left standing were a few bits of walls...
...Lost Boundaries) likes authentic outdoor sets and on-the-spot extras, and Producer Lothar Wolff sent him to western Germany to get plenty of both. To play Luther, Wolff chose British Actor Niall MacGinnis, surrounded him with a varied cast, and began to shoot scenes in 12th century Maulbronn Cloister, Eberbach Cloister and the castle at Eltville (instead of Luther's Wittenberg, which is in Russian hands). Even more impressive than the authentic sets are the intense, characterful faces of the extras...
...none of this was seen by the Poor Clares. Like their 12,000-odd sisters throughout the world, the 47 Poor Clares of Assisi spent these days in their cloister with no sight of the world but the sky above them, praying, working, singing and fasting, to be worthy of being what their founder liked to call herself: Brother Francis' Little Plant...