Word: convents
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...simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation ... a gimmick invented by the Jesuits. Tell as much of the truth as you think advisable, and mentally reserve the rest...
...Convent life whirls on at a bewildeing pace and even the mother superior, in her show-stopping song, laments that she can barely keep up with it: "Oh, the very interior life of a Mother Superior/Is not so interior/It's veiled hysterier./The roofs need repairing/The budgets need paring/This pace is driving me wild./If I get to heaven it's because I made twenty-seven/First Fridays when I was a child...
...nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
...best efforts last week television dropped the boy-meets-girl formula in favor of separating the sexes. The women took superb command in Maurice Evans' production of The Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial...
...magazine, "Les Lettres Nouvelles," under the title of "L'Ete Americain." The author attended the Summer School here last year and upon his return to France wrote what is apparently a very popular and easy-to-sell type of report. "La Bourse Egyptienne" headlined the article: "Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed the excerpts because of their "new point of view, not tainted by political color-blindness nor preoccupied with propagandistic purposes." (Translation was done by Gavin R.W. Scott...