Word: manors
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...amid formal, terraced gardens, the villa resembles a rambling medieval manor house. But the routine within is briskly efficient. Pope Paul VI rises at 6:30 a.m., bathes, is shaved by his valet and says an early Mass. At breakfast (caffè latte, rolls, fruit), the conversation revolves around the morning news while the Pope glances at newspapers: Le Monde, La Stampa, and Corriere della Sera. At 8:30, in the garden under a centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican...
...would not at first associate her with the neo-Gothic literature of the South. Yet she has, in fact, brought the Southern mentality west. In a revealing essay about her native Sacramento Valley, she mourns the passing of a comfortable, interlocking gentry that were her ancestry. They built manor houses amidst their vast fields of hops and tomatoes, ignoring post-World War II newcomers who brought real estate developments and aerospace factories-until the parvenus usurped their world. Like Faulkner, Didion has an overwhelming awareness of human corruption and a sense of unfathomable doom...
...manor house at Princeton lies at the end of a long, tree-shaded gravel drive, secluded from the noise and bustle of the public road. It is much like the homes of the wealthy, whose manners and mores John O'Hara chronicled over the past four decades with a keen ear and a sharp eye. There last week, O'Hara died of a heart attack at the age of 65. He was indisputably one of the major figures of 20th century American literature, but just as indisputably, he was an author who never quite fulfilled the promise...
...longer an unknown psychiatrist, Dr. Cade is in the U.S. this week to speak in Baltimore at a Taylor Manor Hospital symposium on discoveries in biological psychiatry. There he will suggest that other psychiatrists investigate strontium carbonate, to establish whether in this, as in lithium carbonate, he has found a common chemical to be a useful drug...
...often usually hollow and unconvincing. She sang of peace and beauty, and lovers by the side of lilycovered country ponds. Her voice rang clear, but it failed to convey any sense of meaning in the idyllic images she created for her listeners. Judy Collins was like the classic Pine Manor girl whose glowing radiance enchants you, so that you can only nod blindly at her purrings of romantic fantasy...