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Mexicans, who have a high tolerance for red-hot foods, have eaten mole for over 200 years, ever since a nun in Puebla's Santa Monica Convent, surprised when the archbishop dropped in for lunch, threw together everything in the kitchen to make a sauce for leftover turkey...
...family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands. He wanted to commit her to an insane asylum, finally succeeded in imprisoning her in a convent. And so on and so on, through libelous pamphlets, lawsuits, threatening letters, dirty verses pinned on doors, pornographic memoirs, in such detail that readers may find themselves longing for Little Women and A Girl of the Limberlost...
...hardly surprising that although "Black Narcissus" finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group of mortals, frightened by the strange place but determined to fulfill their duties and to care for the people. The lascivious atmosphere works...
...heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said, the loveliest woman in all Ireland...
...vows (which are renewable annually in this Order); she pours herself into a red dress and makes a maddened dead-set for the Englishman. The pagan atmosphere is too much for the nuns; by the time the rains set in, they forlornly abandon St. Faith's for the convent back in Calcutta...