Word: conventionals
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...from scratch, another Oklahoma town, which they name Ruby to honor the woman in their clan who died after the journey. Ruby is 90 miles from anywhere else, which is just what the new patriarchs want, except for a strange old house 17 miles away known locally as the Convent...
This building has a tangled history, but by the late 1960s, it is occupied only by an elderly dying nun and Consolata, her devoted servant and helper of 30 years. And the Convent becomes, with Consolata's diffident acquiescence, a refuge for broken young women, on the run from husbands or boyfriends, parents or the messes they have made of their lives elsewhere. If they show up and have nowhere else to go, Consolata lets them stay...
...more complex, nuanced and ambiguous than any summary can reproduce. It is a mistake common to both Morrison's admirers and critics to understand her fiction too quickly. The violent act that begins and ends Paradise--the assault of the men of Ruby on the women in the Convent--cannot be described simply as a feminist parable, as some early reviewers have already dubbed...
...with someone and become a married couple early on, 2) spend their undergraduate years engaging in random hook-ups, or 3) simply live the celibate life. If students choose the third option, that's four years of celibacy. Who applied to Harvard in the hopes of training for a convent...
...onstage, she is one of the most vividly expressive personalities ever to take an opera-house curtain call. Appearing this fall in the Met's production of Manon, she bewitched audiences and critics alike with her compelling portrayal of the title character, a teenage girl who escapes from a convent, sets up shop as a courtesan, jilts her wealthy lover, seduces a priest and cuts a wide swath through Parisian high society before crashing and burning in the fifth act. It isn't exactly typecasting, she confesses with an all-American grin, but it's a welcome change of pace...