Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describes her new way of life as "halfway between a nun and an athlete." On concert days she goes into total seclusion ("like Stalin lying in state"), and when the awaited hour comes near she does laps backstage to warm up. "I'm not a half child any more," she burbles. "Before, nobody ever let me do anything for myself. Everybody took care of things for me. First my mother, then my husband. Oh, the early days at M-G-M were a lot of laughs. It was all right if you were young and frightened-and we stayed...
MOTHER (Katharine Hepburn) is a charming, drug-ravaged must-have-been-a-beauty who grew up in a convent and dreamed of becoming a nun. But then one day Father swept her off her feet and into a squalid succession of "dirty rooms in one-night-stand hotels.'' When the morphine came along she was desperately ready for it, and after more than 20 years of the needle her soul is as full of holes as her skin...
...President has been more copiously reported by the U.S. press than John F. Kennedy. Nor has any President paid more attention to newsmen-or kept more constantly in mind the uses of the press. Is this good or bad? Last week in the Nation Magazine, a Roman Catholic nun on leave to study mass media sup plied an answer. Wrote Sister Mary Paul Paye, 32, of the Sisters of Mercy: "The American public is exposed to a dangerous phenomenon : the personality cult of the President. I protest -vehemently, vigorously, apolitically and almost alone." Now studying for a doctorate in mass...
...potential of powerful allegory, but Calvino weakens his stories by cluttering them with too many other symbolic characters, e.g., the good half of the viscount eventually shows up, and a pat ending is achieved when the two halves are rejoined. Still, there are passages almost worthy of Cervantes. A nun bemoans her sheltered life: "Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia...
...last two, "Ach bleib bei uns" and "Kommst du nun," are fiendishly hard. But Mrs. Pardue tossed them off as though they were elementary exercises...