Word: crocheting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edith Stein, whose fame had not penetrated convent walls, never learned to sing or crochet very well, even after she joined the nuns behind the grille. But, as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she learned the spiritual lessons of Carmel so well that she has already been proposed as a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Scholar and the Cross (Newman Press; $3.50), German-born Author Hilda Graef analyzes Edith Stein and her spiritual saga with rare objectivity. One fact emerges clearly: whether saint or simply, as a friend suggested, "an ideal personality," Edith Stein...
Only a slight fault of interpretation or stiffness in acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them...
After another five weeks in a Zurich clinic for further treatment of his tuberculous spinal infection, Sir Stafford Cripps felt well enough to leave his bed a few times each day, was spending the rest of his time doing crochet and tapestry designs, and rereading some of his old favorites, including Winnie the Pooh and Dr. Doolittle...