Word: monasticism
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The biggest change in New England boarding schools is, in a word, girls. Since 1970 Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and...
Caliban's words to the intruders on his island seem uniquely fitted to one of the bleakest acts of cultural colonization in history: the English subjugation of Ireland, which began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. In the flowering of Irish monastic culture during what were once routinely...
to 1500 A.D.," it consists of some 59 metal objects-processional crosses, gold torques, chalices, reliquaries, brooches, bell shrines and pins-together with a group of monastic books. This magnificent show, which is scheduled to travel to museums in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Boston and Philadelphia into 1979, includes very nearly...
The climax of the show, however, is not gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated...
Holy the Firm follows Dillard's monastic routine - teaching, musing at her window, walking to a village store to buy Communion wine for her church - and transforms it into a metaphysical journey.