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...another Nazi set piece-Hitler's blood purge of scores of rivals and former associates in that year to consolidate his power. Hughes' creative tide, however, shows signs of slackening. Mitzi, the German cousin whom Augustine loved in Fox, has now gone blind and entered a Carmelite convent...
...Surely a novice in one of the most strict Catholic orders would share the Church's position against consummation before the marriage ceremony. And how does one square her extreme statement that "More than our brother is our chastity" with her decision, at play's end, to forsake the convent and wed the Duke? Still, her two lengthy interviews with Angelo, in the first half of the play, are, both intellectually and dramatically, the two great scenes in the work (partly adumbrated by Portia in The Merchant of Venice). Christina Pickles, in her debut with the AST, could...
Junk. Perhaps it has something to do with an obsession of Leni's that prefigures Au.'s method. As a girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her life's work: reproducing, with a child's paintbox and brush, "a cross section of one layer" of a nun's retina-6,000,000 cones and 100 million tiny rods...
...made merciless fun of poor Emma Bovary, that silly little goose of a Norman schoolgirl, who dreamed in the convent of a mysterious East full of "sultans with long pipes, swooning under arbors in the arms of dancing girls . . . tigers . . . Tartar minarets on the horizon ... kneeling camels." But that was just the East that young Gustave, a dreamy, handsome, unpublished Norman author, a motherbound retarded adolescent of 27, went to see in 1849, the year before he began writing his novel...
Elsewhere in Belfast that same afternoon, a convent and a Catholic school for handicapped children were attacked by mobs hurling stones, bricks and bottles. A Catholic church and parish house were broken into and ransacked, their religious statues smashed. Three Catholic families in Protestant areas were fire-bombed from their homes. The day left five dead, including a fireman who was shot in the chest as he arrived to fight a blaze in Sandy Row, a Protestant section of South Belfast. Tom Herron, vice chairman of the Ulster Defense Association (U.D.A.), largest of the militant Protestant organizations, brazenly declared that...