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...savage campaign against the "rebels." Survivors have told stories of men, women and children being herded into straw huts and burned alive. Refugees arrived in Tanzania with their hands, ears, even their feet chopped off. This year the Tutsis are being more discreet, killing mainly at night. But a nun assigned to the area to treat leprosy said she has no work because "everyone has fled-or is dead." Farther down the road a Jeunesse waved his rifle and boasted: "It's very simple. They want to kill us, so we must kill them first...
...weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published in the U.S. next year by Doubleday. The work was inspired by the still widely read 17th century Letters of a Portuguese Nun, supposedly written to a French officer who had seduced and then deserted her.* The New Portuguese Letters consists of 15 fictional letters, along with poems, essays and manifestos, describing the betrayal and disillusionment of contemporary woman...
...suddenly, the caged look of animal fear drops from her face as it goes grimly taut. She changes into a severe formless suit and walks out on her husband looking like a nun...
...Philip Berrigan is a dashing, ruggedly handsome man whose huge ebullience rarely fails to infect those he meets. Elizabeth McAlister-one of twin daughters among the nine children of an immigrant Irish contractor-became a nun in 1959 while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used...
...girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her life's work: reproducing, with a child's paintbox and brush, "a cross section of one layer" of a nun's retina-6,000,000 cones and 100 million tiny rods...