Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced into the unnatural constraint of a nunnery, an artificially "angelic" costume, it becomes crazed and anarchic...
...There was James, Margaret, a nun in New Zealand, Stanislaus, who died in 1955, Charles, who died five days after James, George, who died at 14, Eileen, who died last year, myself, Eva, who died in 1957, I think, Florence, who is still living, and Mabel, the youngest, who died at 17. James loved her." The James who so dominates the fam ily is James Joyce, and his sister, May Joyce Monaghan, 74, was talking about him during a visit to New York on the 82nd anniversary of his birth. "Jim, as we used to call him, was very gentle...
What Ed wants, Ed usually gets. And what he wanted Right Now for the Ed Sullivan Show was Sister Luc-Gabrielle, 28, better known as the Singing Nun, Soeur Sourire, who zipped to the top of the record heap with Dominique. But Soeur Sourire shies away from her success. So Good Roman Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said...
...talked about cigarette smoking and lung cancer, saying there was a new sign over Forest Lawn cemetery: THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY. He said that jealous religious types were trying to cash in like the singing nun, but no one was interested in a whistling rabbi. Trying folksiness, he told about the little town in Maine where he once lived: "The place was so small that Howard Johnson carried only one flavor...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). First public presentation in the U.S. of Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun," taped at her convent at Fichermont, Belgium...