Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall, containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes, and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...spirit" of a broken heart. After a decent interval, the Princess meets her lover and explains that, even now, she dare not marry him for fear that she might see his love for her grow cold. Despite anything he can say, she gives up the court and enters a convent...
...harsh turbulence. One day an art collector named Dr. Paul Alexandre came upon some of Genevieèe's work at a church sale. Impressed, he began to buy it whenever he could; eventually, he slipped a book of Rembrandt sketches for her through the grill of the convent. Later, he sent her a printing press and etcher's tools...
...Figaro Littéraire to let her announce her discovery. Her verdict: "[They have] the faith of the great primitives shining in each of their faces, with a terror that recalls only Goya." Almost overnight, Mère Geneviève's name was made, and the convent began to sell more sets of her etchings at around $60 a set. Just as important, the nuns began to accept her work as something more than merely strange and disturbing...
Token of her new status was last month's commission to design the new convent's windows. She is giving the project much thought, but there is no hurrying her. Instead of beginning sketches at once, she went right ahead with her etchings to illustrate the Gospel of St. Luke. "I have ideas, yes," she said. "But I am not ready to begin...