Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June. Msgr. Illich's Center for Intercultural Formation opened at Chula Vista with 68 students-about half laymen and half priests and nuns. Only 32 survived the rigors of the four-month. $750 course and are ready for assignment by their sponsoring agencies. The attrition of five and one-half hours daily of language drill, plus lectures and discussions that may last as late as 2 a.m., was only partly responsible for the high mortality; Illich and his staff deliberately make the students angry, start arguments, challenge cherished beliefs. "I hate Yankees!'' Illich may yell...
...hope of heaven or sustaining faith in God. In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, there is a parody of the Lord's Prayer built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness ("Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name"). In The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio, the hero narrator decides that "bread is the opium of the people...
...Pope Pius VII consigned the bones to the care of a priest, Don Francis di Lucia, who had them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration...
...Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...
...from him, at least in the classroom, but he carefully chose the word "God-awful'' to describe her first play. He liked some of her sketches better, particularly Going Whose Way?, a take-off on The Bells of St. Mary's. "My favorite lin^," she remembers, "is when this nun was in the iron lung and the priest asks her, 'Isn't this an iron lung?' and she says, 'I'd hoped you wouldn't notice...