Word: conventionality
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Margaret plays a sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the convent--the sooner the better...
...Barracks. Most rhymes, the Opies learned, were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
...active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent for throwing an inkwell at the mother superior, her year's work in a pottery factory ("to get to know people better"), her melodramatic escape from a Turkish ship during the Spanish civil war, her five years of active struggle against the Franco regime...
...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...