Word: conventionality
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...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...
When a young caballero once admired the dancing legs of Teresa de Cepeda, she replied: "Look well, it may be your last chance!" A short time later, against the wishes of her aristocratic father, 18-year-old Teresa entered a Carmelite convent. But the Carmelites, noted for being the most austere order of women in the Roman Catholic Church, had grown lax and easygoing in 16th Century Spain, and Teresa eventually found herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented...
...routine comes in a dream: he feels urged to visit a carnival performer known as "The Great Diamond," whose name he has seen on a poster. He finds a ratty little man living with a dissolute young girl. The girl asks Father Cawder to find a place in a convent for her illegitimate child; when he upbraids her, she flounces...
...formally took over the Dragon Throne at Hué; two years later he married beautiful Mariette-Jeanne Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, the daughter of a wealthy Cochin-Chinese merchant. The Empress Nam Phuong was a Roman Catholic, educated at Paris' Convent "Aux Oiseaux...
...house the students of the newest college, Oxford authorities had acquired a small group of buildings once used as an Anglican convent. These they renamed St. Antony's, in honor of Benefactor Antonin Besse. Then they began laying plans for the curriculum which St. Anthony's students would follow...