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Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
...last week's simple ceremony stood an old man & woman, the parents of Francisco and Jacinta. Lucia, now a Carmelite nun at a convent 40 miles away in Coimbra, did not leave her seclusion to come to the service...
...nuns in the convent of the Little Company of Mary in Rome pad very softly past a certain room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana...
...amusedly calls himself "the despair of the nuns." They hope for a deathbed display of piety from their speculative old boarder. Outside the convent, he is the despair and delight of his fellow philosophers and critics, who are confounded by his lack of a "system," but cannot resist the charming cadences of his style...
...body. One evening during Barbara's second year, Putney's headmistress discovered one of the boys kissing Barbara. She wrote to Norman suggesting that he would do well to send his daughter to another school. Andrebrook, an all-girl establishment as free of temptation as a French convent school, was recommended. Norman agreed, but his daughter persuaded him to let her have a run first in greener pastures...