Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been worshiping at St. Leonard's Church, a weathered, three-century-old stone building. Enderby has also been the parish's diligent churchwarden for more than two decades. Rising at dawn, he arrives at St. Leonard's shortly before 8 o'clock holy communion, tolls the ancient bell, carefully lights the altar candles, and then drops his usual small offering into the collection envelope. Commendable though it is, Enderby's simple act of devotion is an anachronism. On most days, he is St. Leonard's only worshiper...
...they were growing beautiful with the manual work. He envisioned them grasping the quick marble thighs of girls passing down the street. That's where I live, he thought. I live in visions. Each time he actually confronted a new girl he tangled with her mind and initiate no communion with her body. He preferred to explain concepts of the totality and resurrective powers of love, but there was a hole in the middle of his talk. The whole consisted of their talking bodies. He shook his head in disappointment at himself. I live in visions, he repeated to himself...
...hands of the publisher six weeks before the student outbreaks of April 23-30 that disrupted the work of Columbia University. I have since found no reason to change or add to what I had written months earlier." Since the book was written in "a feeling of communion. . . with the chief officers of Grayson Kirk's administration," it might be looked on as a document of that crisis. If its hostility toward undergraduates reflected the attitudes of the administration, then the gulf of misunderstanding was wide indeed. One can suggest, though, that Grayson Kirk and the Deans took a milder...
...days as a virtual prisoner. Under the pressure of "Mother" Kohler's morbid sexual curiosity, justified as "looking into souls," the girl wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan. After months of piecemeal punishment, Bernadette's Calvary finally came on May 14, 1966. During a four-hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer...
...what it will be. I don't know beforehand who I will be, because I am open to you just as you are open to me." Dialogue involves serious listening-listen-, ing not just to the other, but listening to oneself. This rare and wondrous event Kaplan calls "communion" instead of communication. "It seems to me impossible," he says, "to teach unless you are learning. You cannot really talk unless you are listening." The student is also the professor; the joke teller should also be part of the audience. To Kaplan, there is nothing lonelier than two humans involved...