Word: convention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Italy during World War II the Germans have set up a concentration camp for Jewish children, most of whose parents have been liquidated, not far from a good-sized convent. Italian partisans promptly dig a tunnel under the fence, and the Italian guards look the other way while the children escape. Nuns meet the children at tunnel's end and hide them in the convent crypt until partisans can pick them...
...resilient as a Yo-Yo." Daughter of a Chinese architect and an English-born Conover-model mother, Nancy knows Suzie Wong's world as well as anyone in the cast. When she was not absorbing an education in Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Maryknoll convent school, she was playing in the city where Suzie herself grew...
...postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment of the green ribbon. "After all," he explained, "we're not in Boston...
...Mahyére, daughter of a strict Geneva pastor, in most respects evidently modeled her heroine after herself. Sylvie is a Parisian schoolgirl, a Lesbian who tries to make it on pills and "oceans of alcohol." She has been turned out of two schools, the second time from a convent school for writing a love letter to a teacher. Sylvie has long since decided that she ought to be dead, but death frightens her. Yet to live, "one has to choose between three houses where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view...