Word: namee
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Recently, Trappist abbots took up the issue in a meeting at Citeaux monastery in France, which is the order's headquarters (the order took the name Trappist from another monastery at La Trappe, France). After exhaustive debate-permitted at the abbots' policy meetings-they decided to relax the Trappists' rule of silence, a step allowed under the Second Vatican Council's decree authorizing Catholic orders to modernize their codes of behavior. The world's 80 Trappist monasteries (including twelve in the U.S.) are not about to turn into Towers of Babel; but Trappists henceforth will...
...Bounce back, bounce back," says First Baseman Cepeda. "That's the name of the game." The Cardinals' game, he means: the Cards have spent the last two seasons in the second division, and experts figured them for no better than fifth this year. Who could have figured that Cepeda, traded away by the San Francisco Giants after he batted .176 in 1965, would currently be No. 1 candidate for Most Valuable Player in the National League? Or that Leftfielder Brock, a castoff from the Chicago Cubs, would be riding an eleven-game hitting streak? Or that Rightfielder Maris...
...There is something in the very name of Florence that suggests refinement and pleasurable emotions," wrote Boston-born James Jackson Jarves, America's first real collector of Italian Renaissance art, in 1852. At the time, few Americans agreed with him. When his collection of 143 Pre-Raphaelite paintings was shown in New York in 1860, critics panned them decisively as "weak and fettered," "the crude expression of Genius grappling with superstition." Snorted one Victorian gallerygoer, viewing a Tuscan religious panel with a gold-leaf background: "More of these d-d ridiculous Chinese paintings...
...Horton the Elephant, Yertle the Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told them the artist's name was either "Heinrich Moorehaus or Schweinhenkel Block-haus, or maybe Schweinehund Block-enkopf." He stared at the misplaced toes a girl had attached to a bongo drum-playing doll, asked: "Is that a three-toed tree toad?" He told others that he was working on "a boomerang that won't return...
...insurance firm run by a relative, who was nearly as happy as Aubrey when the boy deserted business for art. But that career was nearly wrecked by Oscar Wilde as a consequence of Wilde's own notorious homosexual liaison with Lord Alfred Douglas. Though Beardsley's name was not even mentioned in the court proceedings, the fact that he had been a known friend of Wilde's was enough to get him fired as the Yellow Book's art director and virtually blacklisted. He was rumored to be guilty of just about every sexual deviation, including...