Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
Intently and seriously, Mère Geneviève studied the space for which she will design the stained glass. The brief journey from her convent at suburban Meudon involved a rare trip into the outside world for the 62-year-old nun who has spent 34 years of her life behind convent walls. Yet in the outside world she is fast becoming a celebrity. Artists and connoisseurs of Paris compare her work with that of Rembrandt, Durer, Goya. French countesses drive out from Paris to the convent at Meudon where she painstakingly turns out her strong, tortured etchings...
...seemed like countless other would-be painters of the day. What brought her to the Benedictines was a combination of esthetic and religious feelings that for years left her vocation in doubt. She describes a memorable Easter-week visit, at the age of 23, to church services at the convent she later entered...
...last week's simple ceremony stood an old man & woman, the parents of Francisco and Jacinta. Lucia, now a Carmelite nun at a convent 40 miles away in Coimbra, did not leave her seclusion to come to the service...
...amusedly calls himself "the despair of the nuns." They hope for a deathbed display of piety from their speculative old boarder. Outside the convent, he is the despair and delight of his fellow philosophers and critics, who are confounded by his lack of a "system," but cannot resist the charming cadences of his style...