Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carole Lombard, following the lead of a Supreme Court justice, said that she liked to pay taxes, there was an almost audible national gasp. But familiarity breeds consent. It has become more and more unfashionable to criticize the income-tax level. A psychology professor, Richard J. Dowling of Holy Cross College, has gone farther than Miss Lombard or Justice Holmes; they had merely expressed a personal pleasure in paying taxes. Dowling raised it to a maturity rite by pronouncing as follows: "Repugnance to tax collectors is a persistent infantilism...
...Genetic mutations will definitely occur, as soon as they cross the threshold into the radioactive danger zone," said Paul M. Doty, associate professor of Chemistry...
Their rule is strict. They rise at midnight for Matins and Lauds, and rise again at 6 for Prime and Mass, and the day's routine. Meals are meager (no meat ever allowed). The sisters fast from Sept. 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross, until Easter Saturday. They maintain strict silence at all times, except for the evening's hour of recreation. (Every now and then, the chaplain at Sing Sing comes over from nearby Ossining and asks how "the lifers" are doing...
...Soul. The life of contemplation has its occupational diseases. Sisters sometimes suffer shattering doubts about the genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St. John of the Cross in his book, The Dark Night of the Soul. Without any apparent cause, all the warm joy and pleasure that the religious normally finds in prayer and the monastic routine suddenly disappears. As one contemporary has described it: "The entire spiritual world seems meaningless and unreal; even...
Styling a uniform has its own special problems. For example, the fabric must be tough enough to stand frequent laundering, and the uniform must be comfortable and easily changed. It must look attractive, but not be too sexy. Says Cooper: "There is an invisible boundary line we cannot cross when styling a nurse's uniform. It must look professional...