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...converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Merton's Mountainous Legacy | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

Joined in a conspiracy of defiance, the curious opening night crowd enjoyed the pleasant sensation, so rare in our permissive age, of eating forbidden fruit. As the curtain rose for A.R.T.'s production of Endgame, a roar of applause--a symbolic note thumbed at Beckett's demands--greeted the unconventional...

Author: By John P. Wauck, | Title: Much Ado About Nothingness | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard Hall and explains that it used to house almost all student activities until it burned down. "The fire destroyed all of John Harvard's library, or at least that's what people thought. But then one student who had taken out a book for the night, which was forbidden, realizing the value of the book, returned the book to the President, who thanked the student and then promptly expelled...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Walking and Gawking | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

Although you're not advocating "presumed consent," in which the organs of an individual who dies are presumed available for donation unless he or she has forbidden it, you do support stronger measures to ensure more donation. What would these involve...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: An Outspoken Dean | 12/13/1984 | See Source »

...midday press conference before the service, Tutu said that by South African law he is forbidden from advocating foreign "disinvestment" from his country, but can only criticize investment...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Nobel Winner Tutu Attacks Investments in South Africa | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

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