Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallo, Mary!" Publication of Shaw's iconoclastic parable, The Black Girl in Search of God, temporarily broke the friendship between the nun and the old man, though he insisted to her that it was directly inspired by God and wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think...
...Sister Joanna of the Cross, Julie Curtis displays a convincing maternal instinct in the first act, but later became insipid in her farewell scene with Teresa. Joyce White as Sister Marcella was miscast; she lacked the youth and radiance that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch sunbeams with, should have. In the male roles, Donald McAllister as the Doctor was stiff, formal, and didactic where he should have been casual, worldly, and sarcastic. As Antonio, Robert J. Morris was earnest enough, but substituted too much savoir faire and pompousness for what should have been a certain degree...
...Complaining Angel was a "harder ticket" than Broadway's My Fair Lady-only nuns were admitted to its three performances, staged as a training project by the department of speech for the summer school that annually brings some 800 teaching sisters to Notre Dame. "You can't teach a skill if you have never mastered it," explains Drama Teacher Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout...
Sure that being guardian angel to a nun "is a lot more fun/in the race to the state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation...
...city below, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre looms in the dusk beneath a skeleton of steel girders that shores it up, a byproduct of the 1927 earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...