Word: convents
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...Seduction of a Proper Gentleman” 3. Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 in “Men! Men! Men!” 4. Bret Johnston in “A Literary Dandy” 5. Rev. Peter J. Gomes in “Codpiece in a Convent!” 6. Alison Simmons in “Platonic Forms ... of Passion” 7. Steven Pinker in “Mind Fuck?...
...Schlesinger Library; some are on loan from the Longy School of Music.“Boulanger’s legacy is still present today,” said Sarah Adams. “In addition to teaching hundreds of students from summers spent in France and at a convent in Wisconsin, and teaching both in Europe and America from the 1920s to the 1970s, her students have gone on to teach her style to another generation of composers.”Although her love of teaching is apparent, it is little known that Nadia Boulanger was the first woman...
...experience of being date-raped, Mirren told GQ: "I went to a convent school until I was 18 and had never spent a night away from home, or gone to parties. So I was very innocent when I went to college in London and I was living on my own. And I found guys were horrible, mean, rude, insulting and so without feeling...
...foot (3.8-m) wooden cross through the city's streets. In St. Mary's Cathedral, people lit candles and knelt to pray before a casket holding the remains of Italian youth worker Pier Giorgio Frassati, which had been shipped to Australia for the occasion. In a small convent chapel on the other side of Sydney Harbour, they did the same at the tomb of 19th-century Australian nun Mary McKillop. Both are patrons of World Youth Day and, their supporters hope, will soon be declared saints by the Church. Out in the bright blue, southern hemisphere winter day, pilgrims strolled...
...late March, Burgos' family held a celebration for what would have been his 38th birthday at the Carmelite convent where Edita Burgos works. As she sat in the convent's sunlit courtyard, in front on an untouched chocolate cake, a procession of careworn middle-aged women came up to her. They were, she explained, mothers of other activists who have vanished. When the women had gone, Burgos continued: "This is not about Jonas alone. They are killing the future leaders of our country. If you kill these people, who will be left...