Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best efforts last week television dropped the boy-meets-girl formula in favor of separating the sexes. The women took superb command in Maurice Evans' production of The Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial...
...magazine, "Les Lettres Nouvelles," under the title of "L'Ete Americain." The author attended the Summer School here last year and upon his return to France wrote what is apparently a very popular and easy-to-sell type of report. "La Bourse Egyptienne" headlined the article: "Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed the excerpts because of their "new point of view, not tainted by political color-blindness nor preoccupied with propagandistic purposes." (Translation was done by Gavin R.W. Scott...
...When convent-educated Francoise Sagan* dashed off her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, in a summer month in 1953 after flunking out of the Sorbonne ("With my family angry at me, I had to do something"), she became one of Europe's fastest-selling, most controversial authors. The limpidly written tale of 17-year-old Cecile (a year younger than the authoress), who maneuvers her father's two mistresses to meet her own needs and causes the suicide of one, quickly became France's biggest bestseller (450,000 copies). Translated into 14 languages, it won the Prix...
...were his welcomers. The "prohibited imports" strewn through Goossens' luggage: some 1,100 "indecent" photographs, several naughty books and movie films, three strange rubber masks. On his own request, Sir Eugene was "temporarily" relieved of his podium. At the moment his wife was holed up in a convent near Paris. One of his daughters. Sidonie, commented sadly: "My father has not been well lately...
Eventually the shepherds made their way to St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem, where Archbishop Samuel expressed interest in buying the pieces. He obtained five of the original eight scrolls for a small sum; the remaining three eventually came into the hands of a Hebrew University professor. Samuel still had no real idea of his purchase's worth. Nearly a year later, he took them to the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem where incredulous scholars estimated they were written at the beginning of the Christian era. The remarkable find was soon announced to the world. It was received with...