Word: monasticism
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A cinemactress's southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one...
Work and Prayer. Next day the monks started to convert the barn into the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost. For the traditional Trappist common dormitory they constructed cells of wallboard (4½ by 7 feet), threw their hard straw mattresses on wooden planks. They sleep in their...
Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross.
Planned Defense. The Air Ministry does its best to beat off the irritating raids. An elaborate watch and signaling system can at best only hope to give ground gunners 50 seconds' warning, so sharpshooter gunners are being trained by special diet and physical exercises to quicken their perceptions. They...
Far beyond the natural interest of any male at an Eastern college to peek into a suite at Lathrop Hall, to find that the stresses of Harvard monastic life are duplicated at the Poughkeepsie nunnery, and to eavesdrop on "heifer" sessions-beyond this aspect, "Consider the Daisies" will appeal to...