Word: monasticism
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The Dead Sea Scrolls have already raised more dust in Christendom than anything since Darwin, and will certainly kick up more in years to come. It is well known that the scrolls were the sacred documents of a monastic sect living 20 centuries ago at Qumran, in what is now...
Yet for my money Cradle Song is still a perfect gem of a play. The Sierras have used very few words from the dramatic alphabet, but with them they have managed to say a great many things about human nature. Indeed, the irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions...
Worried over Wives. Four years away from the heady 1952 Olympic triumph at Meilahti Gulf, Finland, the fine rhythm and rugged power of champions were not easy to rebuild. On a previous try, the Naval Academy failed: the 1920 Olympic crew was reassembled from stations in the fleet and put...
"Mais naturellement. This new fringe benefit business, of course. Who on the faculty gets a fringe benefit--the monastic scholar, dedicated to his work, or the brilliant cosmopolitan researcher and man-about-town? Oh no; it's the faculty drudge who barely manages to get out a small paper and...
Yet in the circumscribed foreground space, there is a cloistral hush that is completely monastic. The half-genuflecting angel, splendid with great, backswept polychrome wings and raised hand, recites the sentence inscribed in gold from St. Luke: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most...