Word: monasticism
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Within the Cowl. For all his fame and popularity, there are few more elusive personalities in art than Fra Angelico. So completely did the man and artist live within his monastic cowl and robe, effacing himself within the disciplines of monastic life, that his early life, training and personality are...
Best Actress. In the land where girls are classed as oranges, grapefruits and lemons, Julie on her own report was received as "a strange object." On the set she scuffed about barefoot "to get into the mood for the part." A columnist reported that whenever Director Fred Zinnemann made a...
The true nature of the Men in Green, however, is not to be seen in frozen Mardi Gras and consumption of Bonded Kentucky. Anti-Freeze. Rather the Dartmouth spirit comes from those monastic days in the middle of the week.
Through the years on shipboard, Wouk had been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable...
"Faith is stronger than law," said Archbishop Luis María Martínez, drawing deeply on his cigarette. "Despite what has happened in the past, we are really not doing too badly." Outside, a brown-cowled Franciscan hurrying along the plaza bore out the Archbishop's point, for...