Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Columbia University last year, a Roman Catholic nun working for her M.A. in Russian flew off to the Soviet Union to do interviews on the 1917 Revolution. At the University of California in Berkeley, one of the nation's best centers for Hispanic studies, another nun, expert in Spanish, has just been offered a job as a teaching fellow. In New York, sisters attending Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart avidly study the sometimes shocking works of Samuel Beckett, and other nuns press curiously into a Second Avenue loft to take in the blasphemous black mass of Jean...
...might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable to steal happiness on the sly. They dream of going to Moscow, the perennial illusion of the despairing...
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The position of the nun in the modern world is examined by a panel of lay Catholics and nuns...
...were barely buried and done with when the elephant gags came along. And no sooner had those grey flat footsteps faded than the whatsit jokes took over, and what's black and white and red all over turned out to be no newspaper, after all, but a bleeding nun...
...admiring friend, Rachel Carson, 56, was "a nun of nature, a votary of all outdoors." She also had a rare gift for transmuting scientific fact into lucid, lyrical language. Yet it was only in 1951, after 15 years with the Fish and Wildlife Service-much of the time as editor in chief of its publications-that she published her famous book The Sea Around Us. It was written in hypnotic, susurrant prose; it brimmed with intriguing knowledge; and for a book aimed at a popular audience, it was hard to fault scientifically. The Sea stayed on the bestseller lists...