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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...
...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...
...tropical climates, for example, need not wear the customary woolen habit. Daily hours may be shifted to local needs, and a prioress no longer has absolute sway over her convent. Beyond that, however, in rare cases nuns have abandoned the habit altogether. Also, sisters are occasionally leaving the cloister for personal missions like visiting a sick parent, and, with special permission, for more mundane matters like schooling. A prioress in Barcelona even appeared on a TV talk show. "These are the exceptions that get publicity," says a Carmelite in Rome. Nonetheless, such liberties would once have been unthinkable; to traditionalists...
...square in front of the newly restored Royal Palace. Elderly Poles dressed for Mass prayed fervently or chatted in hushed tones about the Pope's imminent arrival. About 20 university students from Poznan who had slept overnight on the floor of a Dominican cloister strummed guitars and sang religious and folk songs. Entire families huddled in the windows of nearby buildings that were decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome...