Word: cloisters
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Princeton has 13 eating clubs, where students take their meals and socialize. The Charter Club and Cloister Inn were the two clubs charged with the violations...
Both former and current officers of Cloister were charged because the new officers took office at midnight of the initiation party. The Charter officers had taken charge on February 1, so that only the new officers were charged...
...students charged with the violations were Simpler, Charter's social chair Lisa Napolitano and Cloister's social chair Jim Martin, former president Jay Weiss and former social chair Kristin Seymour...
...idea of Zurbaran, as the art historian Yves Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
When Therese Martin died in 1897, she was an unknown nun of 24. She had lived 15 years at home with her father, nine more in the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux, France. She worked no eye-catching miracles, made no famous converts, succumbed to tuberculosis like many others of her time. Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books...